The song “ Lost Boy” by Ruth B. relates to Holden’s desire to forget the painful reality of losing his brother, Allie. For instance, Holden gets himself kicked out of Pencey and runs away to New York where he constantly drinks and tries to lose himself. He has delusional thoughts and slowly moves farther from reality and into a state of delusion. By the end of the novel Holden loses himself completely, he says, “Every Time I’d get to the end of the block I’d believe I was talking to my brother Allie. I’d say to him, Allie please don’t let me disappear”(Salinger 198). This shows how he can not tell what was his imagination and what was fact. Also, it shows how he tries to integrate his brother into real life so that he would not have to accept
