Holden Caulfield Banned

Throughout your high school career or time in high school. You have read many books. Such as “Romeo and Juliet” in Freshman year. “To Kill a Mockingbird” in your 2nd year in high school. Or “The Catcher in the Rye” for your junior class. Most of these books we read, being forgotten or sometimes remembered. Some of these book however had bad history of being banned from schools. One of these books we have read is “The Catcher in the Rye”. Although the book is a great piece of literature, it should be banned because it has vulgarity and shows a lot of bad influences.

In the story we follow the protagonist Holden Caulfield. He is not your typical high schooler. Rather he is a very antisocial youth compared to other characters in the book. One of his biggest characteristic is that he lives in his imagination quite often. “Six shots right through his fat hairy belly” (104). In that whole page Holden has homicidal thoughts of murdering Maurice. Even though Maurice stole $5 from Holden and hits him. Holden sums up that he wishes to kill Maurice. This expresses a lot of violent thinking and poor decision making.

“I’m quite a heavy smoker” (5). As stated in the near beginning of the story. Holden smokes a lot of cigarettes. To the point that he cannot run a lot without having to catch his breath. “Yes, I am. Come in, won’t you?” (94). Sometime within chapter 13 of the book. Holden allows a prostitute to come into his apartment. Some students may feel they can relate to Holden a lot and may be influenced by him. Copying him by smoking