Since its publication in , The Catcher in the Rye has spawned catchphrases, book-banning campaigns, unauthorized sequels, and untold millions of padded high school English class essays. Before writing Catcher in the Rye , author J. Salinger was in talks with Harcourt, Brace and Company about potentially publishing a collection of his short stories. Salinger suggested they publish his new novel instead. So I went to Mr.
I gave him the whole story. I said, 'I feel that I have to resign from the firm. Brace was a wonderful man, but he had hired Reynal and would not overrule him.
He did not runaway after the murder but he remained there rereading The Catcher in the Rye until the police arrived and arrested him. Chapman claimed that the novel was his statement. The next year, John Hinkley, Jr. One example that exemplifies this experience can be found in J. Many could ask the question how a novel could lead someone to commit a murder.
It spoke about how and when Lennon was executed, the reasoning behind why Chapman did it, the childhood. Books have been banned for various reasons. The entire context may have been inappropriate, or the cover of the book could have had offensive material. There have even been cases where books have been banned for one word out of place.
When The Catcher in the Rye was published in , it was put on the banned book list after a short period of time since many people felt that the book was extremely inappropriate due to its crude language, violence and sexual content. The main character Holden Caulfield. The book has been banned in many places, while at the same time being viewed as an American classic.
The story follows a mentally ill teen, Holden Caulfield, delving into his thoughts and feelings. This leads conspiracy theorists to believe that this novel was an assassination trigger.
This conspiracy theory came to a popular rise after the release of the movie, Conspiracy Theory, starring Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts. The idea was that the CIA had implanted codes in The Catcher in the Rye that brainwashed them to do whatever the government wanted.
Leaked documents from the CIA confirmed that during the MK-Ultra mind control program, once patients heard a certain set of numbers or words in a certain order, they would immediately be hypnotized and follow every command they received. People who have read the novel know that the main character, Holden, is a troubled guy.
He talks about his experience in a mental hospital and deals with trauma and loss from the death of his brother. Many people believe that Salinger put a lot of himself in the protagonist, particularly the pain he experienced while at war. This theory is highly debatable, especially considering that the American Library Association reported that, even in , The Catcher in the Rye was one of the top ten most frequently banned books in schools and school libraries.
So, why would teachers assign it then? This seems pretty unbelievable. Told solely from his perspective, the relatively uneventful novel explores his, often very emotional, opinions of other people. But I wondered if this is what separates me, or us, from the psychopaths, do they not get that same uplifting feeling from the penultimate chapter? Can they not take the novel and separate it from their own lives, using it as a comparative source from which to highlight the good in their own lives?
Maybe the book just resonates too strongly and relates too much to their own life for them to be able to separate fiction from reality.
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