Baseball Glove

Most people have a small momento to remember a special person that has gone away from their lives. Even the smallest things can have great meaning to people. In Holden Caulfield’s it is a peculiar baseball glove worn by his younger brother, Allie.

Holden Caulfield is not one to enjoy things. He finds negative in nearly everything he does. The only thing he has ever learned to enjoy are his siblings, but each one is eventually weeded out from his burning sense of love for them in their own way. For example, D.B. is the best writer Holden know and he enjoys being with him, but things take a turn for the worse as D.B. decides to leave for Hollywood to write scripts for movies. To make matters worse, movies are one of the top things on Caulfield’s list of his most hated things and then the fact that his brother is going away to make them just disgusts him beyond belief.

Next, Holden’s brother Allie was always kind to Holden and he truly understood him. This meant a lot the Holden, because nobody else in his life was able to do that, but then tragedy struck and Allie died at age 11. Holden was distraught on such a high scale he spent the night in the garage smashing windows with his fists. He eventually broke both of his hands but that still couldn’t keep his mind off the horrible loss. Now, all Holden has to hold on to is a unique baseball mitt of Allie’s. When Allie was alive, he played left field on his baseball team. Due to the fact that not many balls come out to where he was, he spent time reading his baseball mitt. What made this glove so special is that Allie wrote enjoyable poems all over them so he had something to do when he was bored. Now those poems, and that hunk of leather is all Caulfield has to hold on to in remembrance.

Tragedy strikes in our lives, but we must make the best of it. Holden struggles with this so greatly that he must not believe it happened. He must cling to the last piece of Allie that he has and hold on to it with all of his strength. Many of us will resort to the same thing when the time comes and it is debatable whether it is the right move, but it is a move and that is the most important thing.