“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood is like, and how my parents were occupied an all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

JD Salinger begins The Catcher in the Rye with a strong sentence that hooks his readers, creates a strong sense of mood, and establishes his style of writing. How does the author of your Reading Olympic book use language to create his/her own style?

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