Salinger's coming-of-age story,
Catcher in the Rye, and Mark Twain's seminal
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and is considered to be a young adult classic in Canada.
Major was the youngest child born to a large family in Newfoundland, a large island off the eastern coast of Canada. He was the first of the family's children to be born after Newfoundland became a province of Canada, so his father jokingly termed him the only true Canadian in the family. Major was able to see how confederation with Canada changed his home. "I ... have seen the clash between [Newfoundland's] traditional way of life and the wave of new ideas, attitudes and values that swept in as Newfoundland came out of its long period of relative isolation. The changes that have resulted, particularly as reflected in the lives of its young people, is perhaps the central theme of my writing," he told Something about the Author (SATA).
Lobsters and Literature
Major's youth was tied to the land. His father was a fisherman, and the young Major would often help with the work, including the catching of lobsters. Yet the city they lived in, Stephenville, was close to a modern air force base set up by the United States during World War II.
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