Catcher In The Rye Censorship

“When you have strict censorship, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues” (Ai Weiwei). Censorship regulates and sets standards for children’s literature. Restriction on literature such as “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger, prevents exposure to all types of literature which neutralizes society’s plan for increasing the all around rates of reading in students. Increasing these rates will benefit students with improvement on comprehension, interpretation, and depiction. Censorship is an infringement of the first amendment through the interference of students intellectual freedom. One’s availability to diverse literature, the ability to grow intellectually, the rights to the first amendment, and the opportunity to uncover misconceptions are jeopardized at the cost of censorship. Censorship limits the variety of text available to students in school. The censorship of literature puts students at a major disadvantage due to the lack of diverse topics and genres available. Teachers are held responsible and limited with censored topics permitted to be
It is more beneficial for students to have teachers present, rather than solo at home, to explain and clear up any misconceptions which will help to fulfill their learning potentials. Teenagers are already being greatly exposed to these subjects or aspects of alcohol, sex, or profanity and they cannot be entirely protected from daily life concepts. According to Yevgeny Yevtushenko, “When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.” By having the opportunity to draw lessons away from explicit text, students are encouraged through the learning experience at a faraway standpoint instead of students having to learn by firsthand experience. Censored literature offers great learning opportunities and is more beneficial to students to have the option than to