The Catcher in the Rye

According to the American Library Association's website, it was "banned in Strongsville, OH (1972), but the school board's action was overturned in 1976 by a U.S. District Court in Minarcini v. Strongsville City School District. Challenged at the Dallas, TX Independent School District high school libraries (1974); in Snoqualmie, WA (1979) because of its several references to women as "whores"."

I read from a questionable source the initial banning was for offensive language.

http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedclassics/reasonsbanned/index.cfm

http://www.gumbopages.com/fridge/banned-books.txt

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He rocks his world

Holden wakes up to Mr. Antolini stroking his head, he thinks he's being gay and hurries out of the apartment

Allie was Holden's younger brother who died of Leukemia. He had a baseball mitt that he wrote poems on in green pen so he could read something while playing in the outfield. Holden and Allie were pretty close.

in catcher in the rye Holden always talks about change ans how he hates it. the ducks symbolize that change is natural, but not always permanent because the ducks come back.

The Catcher in the Rye is about a week or two that the main character; Holden Caufield spends figuring out his life in a deep but humerous way, after he is kicked out of Pencey school. He waits out the time gap between the time he gets kicked out and the time he goes home for Christmas break, because he ashamed of what his parents will think, as this is not the first school he has been kicked out of.

He goes to crazy hotels and nightclubs, goes on dates with old friends, and finally sees his sister, Phoebe, who opens his eyes to the world he is missing out on.

His cynical views and extreamly frank outook on life are deep, but funny, and will touch any person who reads his brief memoir; The Catcher in the Rye.

This is one of my favorite books, and it never gets old. If you get it or if you don't, you will still love it. This is an amazing book that makes you long to just live in the moment, I strongly encourage you to read it.

Symbol: erasing profanity, the carrousel, and mummies

Motif: Pencey Prep, Unmade Phonecalls, and the ducks in the park

Image: allie's baseball glove

Phoebe is Holden's little sister.

His opinion of her is always the same: she's smart and talented, everything he isn't. He does have a close relationship with her and protects her from the outside world and its horrible influences. He also realizes Phoebe is their parent's favorite, in a way.

Nobody gives it to him, he buys it in New York for a buck.

Phoebe's record is broken by Holden dropping it onto the frozen ground, and it broke into a many pieces. At the point, Holden is feeling alone, depressed, and downright in the dumps. He's a scared kid, and he feels like nobody is on his side, and to be honest, only few people are.

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Holden's roommate at pencey prep.

There are several reasons why Holden is a phony. For one, he constantly talks about how phony the movies are and how much he hates to go to them. However, there is one time when he pretends to have been shot and holds his guts in like they do in the movies. A second example is that he erases the f-word off of the steps of Phoebe's school in an attempt to protect the children from the profanity, yet he himself curses around Phoebe all the time.

Holden vs. Himself: In general, Holden has a difficult time dealing with everyday life due to his internal conflict. His thoughts almost seem to be working against him because he cannot cope with reality. Slowly, Holden is becoming less capable to function within society because his constant references to his childhood. Holden is not comfortable with the present; therefore referring to it negatively. In order to justify his own actions and "phoniness", Holden feels it necessary to accuse everyone and everything he comes across as being phony. By doing this, he is distracting himself from his own flaws. As a prisoner in his own mind, Holden is also becoming less capable to cope with life and the transition into adulthood. Holden vs. Society Holden is unable to relate to other characters in the novel. Phoebe seems to be the only person that Holden feels he can relate with, this may be because she is still young and has yet to enter the adult world. Holden wants to hold on to his childhood, yet he strives to fit in as part of what he perceives as the adult world (ordering drinks at the bar, attempting to start conversations about sex with Luce). He tries to shield the people he knows from the real world and encourages them to stay as they are and hold on to their innocence. He believes the [adult] world is full of "phonies".

The first thing he does when he arrives at Penn Station is go into a phone booth, with the intent to call somebody. But he can't figure out who to call, so instead he takes a cab to the Edmont Hotel and gets a room:

"The first thing I did when I got off at Penn Station, I went into this phone booth. I felt like giving somebody a buzz...but as soon as I got inside, I couldn't think of anybody to call up...So I ended up not calling anybody. I came out of the booth, after about twenty minutes or so, and got my bags and walked over to that tunnel where the cabs are and got a cab...We got to the Edmont Hotel, and I checked in...They gave me this very crumby room..." (First Little Brown Books mass market paperback edition, pp59 - 61).

The main character is Holden Caufield, other characters are Jane Gallagher, Mr. and Mrs. Antolini, Mr. Spencer, Phoebe Caufield (holden's little sister), Stradlater, Maurice (pimp)

He bought Phoebe a record of a song called "Little Shirley Beans" by a blues singer named Estelle Fletcher. But later, it broke when he fell down, to his disappointment. Phoebe insisted on keeping the pieces anyway.

He spent the night in the family garage, and broke all the garage windows with his fist, badly lacerating his hand in the process.

During one of the main characters thought processes he says that more than anything he would love to be in the middle of a rye field rounding up children running about. Alot like the Pied PIper "the catcher in the rye."

Well if the book was taking place in 1951 and he is 16, then he was born in 1935.

Holden sees profanity as phony and a corrupting influence so he tries to erase the offensive graffiti from the school stairway and halls. Everywhere he sees obscene words written, he tries to clean them up. He thinks about Phoebe seeing the words and that infuriates him. By cleaning the walls, he thinks he has become the catcher in the rye, shielding the children from the brink of corruption. But there are too many obscenities painted and carved into the walls. Holden is forced to accept the fact that he cannot catch everyone or everything or clean up all the graffiti.

The novel is written in the first person, and Holden himself is the narrator.

He has a nervous breakdown and ends up in an insane asylum.

I don't know EVERY movie that mentions "Catcher in the Rye," but there's a long scene in the play/movie "Six Degrees of Separation" about it. The character played by Will Smith, a charlatan pretending to be the well-to-do son of actor Sidney Poitier, claims he's written his thesis on "Catcher in the Rye" - specifically, he examines why the book is often championed by troubled young criminals like Mark David Chapman and John Hinckley Junior.

Yes. Holden narrates the entire story from a mental rest home from just outside Hollywood, California.