Where is catcher in the rye still banned
Salinger was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Born in New York, , his path to a literary career was anything but straight. After failing out of a college preparatory school, Salinger was sent to military school.
Upon returning, he attended New York University for one year, then went to Europe, then returned to school at Ursinus College, and then finally Columbia University. It was at Columbia where his writing career really began, after meeting Whit Burnett, professor and editor of a short story magazine. Salinger began publishing short stories before he was drafted to help with WWII efforts.
Overseas, he began his narrative of the deeply unsatisfied Holden Caulfield, but upon returning home, Salinger was hospitalized after having a nervous breakdown. Want to support the Free Speech Center? Donate Now. Mydans, Seth. About the Encyclopedia. Interested in First Amendment current events? Mark David Chapman, the killer of John Lennon, so identified with the Salinger's antihero that he wanted to change his name to Holden Caulfield. Robert John Bardo, another killer, was carrying a copy of the book the night he murdered actress Rebecca Schaeffer.
You don't have to be a murderer to like it, though. Salinger could have been a meat importer — his father was a successful meat and cheese merchant who sent his son to Austria to brush up on the trade before the second world war.
Luckily, Salinger left after only a month, escaping both the meat trade and the Nazis. All books should be banned hehe xd x. So is this book considered important because the word "fuck" is used or does it have some good ideas?
The whole goddamn wink book is about Holden's rebellion and inability to conform to society's standards, which exudes an individualistic spirit. It really makes me laugh when people find this book "communist". Funny that some groups considered the book communist, yet the book has been banned in several schools. My favorite book ever! Ayyy lmao said I disagree, I'm 16 from a middle class family in Florida and we've just started reading this book as an assignment in my english teacher.
Being only 10 chapters in, I can relate more to Holden more than I can to almost any other character in other popular books. He got flunked out of his schools His own doing because he wasn't happy in the environment they provided.
I can relate to this as I don't enjoy the environment my schools have provided thus far. He chose to drink and smoke. While I don't drink or smoke, this is a very minor habit I can overlook and move past. There's nothing offensive about it, they're just things people do. He chose to treat everyone around him like dirt? I guess you could say that, but you're really stretching it with this one. He's a teenager in a private school full of other middle to upper class kids, they all treat each other like dirt, it's really no surprise.
In the book, Akley or Stradlater treated him just as poorly as he treated them. He didn't confront his parents when he got kicked out of Pencey because he didn't have to confront them Only at chapter 10 so as far as I'm aware, he's still waiting until Wednesday to do that.
He wanted them to find out from the letter and let it sink in, he didn't leave Pencey early so he could go straight back, he went to New York and got a hotel room so he could wait until they got the letter. Just like some students would skip a class until the teacher or school faculty call their parents to let their parents know that they're skipping before actually telling their parents themselves.
It's a bit cowardly, but relatable none the less. I've enjoyed this book very much so far and have been reading it anytime I have the spare time since I got it around PM yesterday. I don't need to go to a private school to relate, I've been going to a public school all my life and don't see how the fact that it takes place in a private school has anything to do with it. Our public education isn't as bad as people make it out to be, or at least that's how I feel anyways.
Maybe that's because it's a part of my normal day though. I'm going off on a bit of a tangent, sorry. Regardless, you may not think this book is important in schools today, but it's been banned for the most part up until now and even 60 years after it was published, I feel like I can relate to it far more than I can relate to almost any other book we've been asked to read in and outside of the classroom.
Personally I loved the book. Not until I finished it though. I just couldn't stop thinking about that stupid story after I put the book down. It's clearly not controversial by todays standards of course but then that's not the point is it?
Yes Holden IS unlikable, I think he's a snobby spoilt brat, but that's still not the point. I think anyone who is judging the book by the main characters merits is missing the point to the story. It is a great literary piece and more people should read it. I disagree with maynesly. My english class recently finished this novel and during a discussion, many of us were able to make personal connections to the way that Holden was feeling or acting.
This novel is still very accurate, at least for my class. This book is NOT important. At least, not anymore.