Catcher In The Rye Banned
The Banning of The Catcher in the Rye
Banning a book means someone disagreed with how a story presents itself. A lot of the time it’s the parents who challenge the books because they feel their children should not read such books. Which is somewhat understandable considering most of the time the books that get banned share the topics of promoting and or encouraging profanity, explicit material and homosexuality. Banning a book does not do anything but give the author some bad cred. Eventually, sooner or later the children will hear about or see such things, so cradling them from it in books will not do much. The only thing banning a book will do is keep people from reading about some interesting classic themes. Take The Catcher in the …show more content…
Salinger is based on The Catcher in the Rye on himself. Salinger started to write this novel as soon as he was released from a mental hospital. He had written a few chapters here and there, but he started this unforgettable story then. It had been a significant influence on society and their conservative values in the 1940's-1950s. Salinger used Holden (the main character) to make a point and break barriers to the American people. This story made a significant impact mainly because no one had read anything like it before. It was different from most, and it was evident it was a book out of the …show more content…
With this story being so out of the ordinary with its uniqueness and all, it became very well-known and had an extensive list of people who wanted it banned or challenged. Not all for the right reasons, though. I mean yes, parents do not want their children reading about such things, but in all reality, the parents just do not understand the character. They do not know the story, the reasons for Holden's actions or what he could be thinking, so how could they possibly like something they do not get? The Catcher in the Rye may have been useless to some, but to others, this story was something epically easy to connect with. This book should not have been banned just because it was
Banning a book means someone disagreed with how a story presents itself. A lot of the time it’s the parents who challenge the books because they feel their children should not read such books. Which is somewhat understandable considering most of the time the books that get banned share the topics of promoting and or encouraging profanity, explicit material and homosexuality. Banning a book does not do anything but give the author some bad cred. Eventually, sooner or later the children will hear about or see such things, so cradling them from it in books will not do much. The only thing banning a book will do is keep people from reading about some interesting classic themes. Take The Catcher in the …show more content…
Salinger is based on The Catcher in the Rye on himself. Salinger started to write this novel as soon as he was released from a mental hospital. He had written a few chapters here and there, but he started this unforgettable story then. It had been a significant influence on society and their conservative values in the 1940's-1950s. Salinger used Holden (the main character) to make a point and break barriers to the American people. This story made a significant impact mainly because no one had read anything like it before. It was different from most, and it was evident it was a book out of the …show more content…
With this story being so out of the ordinary with its uniqueness and all, it became very well-known and had an extensive list of people who wanted it banned or challenged. Not all for the right reasons, though. I mean yes, parents do not want their children reading about such things, but in all reality, the parents just do not understand the character. They do not know the story, the reasons for Holden's actions or what he could be thinking, so how could they possibly like something they do not get? The Catcher in the Rye may have been useless to some, but to others, this story was something epically easy to connect with. This book should not have been banned just because it was