Adversity is a common thing in many people's lives. Adversity is a hard time someone faces in their life such as a death, a breakup, money problems, and many more things. I myself have dad many adversities in my life, and so do characters in novels people read. For example there are examples of adversity in both the novels The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Tuesday's with Morrie by Mitch Album.

In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, the main character Holden Caulfield faced many adversities throughout his life. The entire novel is about Holden wanting to intercourse and about him wanting to be an adult. This is hard for Holden because he is not as mentally or physically experienced as all of his friends. So Holden tries so hard to make himself as experienced as his friends, but he does not want...