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He never finds the love he is hoping for or finds any reason to believe in humanity. Everyone disappoints Holden, from favorite teachers that never seem to say the right thing, the mentor who makes an advance on him, and friends who just don’t get him. And since no one does, he sees everyone as phonies, people that are really not quite human. Holden spends that time wandering around New York City, just begging for someone to really listen to him. The book’s timeline spans only three days.
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Holden Caulfield is a lonely teenager who has just been expelled from an elite, East Coast prep school. It’s feelings about humanity, its desire for meaning and purpose are all things we readers can relate to. At its heart, "Catcher in the Rye" is a tragic and personal story about a young man just trying to figure out the world around him and his place in it. This year for Banned Books Week, the trick for me was forgetting that controversial history and just focusing on the story itself. People who are critical of the book being taught in school point to the work’s language and questionable morals. Time Magazine listed Salinger’s most famous work as the number four most banned book in the United States. Recently, I read the Judy Blume novel "In the Unlikely Event." In that work, a character is given a copy of the book and along with it, a sense of eerie foreboding.
#The catcher in the rye by jd salinger movie
Whenever you see a character in another story or even a movie reading it, you can’t help but think that something bad is going to happen. The novel has become more than a novel, it’s become its own literary device. It has been linked to the assassination attempt on President Reagan and the killing of John Lennon, supposedly inspiring those troubled readers in their unspeakable tasks. There are few books in American literature as controversial as "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Scott Southard brings us a review on one of the most famous banned books, "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D.
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Next week is Banned Books Week, that time when we celebrate the controversial side of the literary world.