Law and Order: N.A.B.

Law & Order: N.A.B.

Not Appropriate Books

The Catcher in the Rye is a book that was first published in 1951 and since then it has been subjected to discussions in different school all around the United States. This controversial book was created by J.D. Salinger, in which he talks of the shadows of his life at prep school. In lots of states this books have been banned from being read and even in some countries around the world. People around the world have banned this books from being read, especially in schools, because of its excessive profanity, sexual content, drugs, prostitution, delinquency, drunkenness, and also for being ‘anti-white’. In other states people have not banned it because it shows that is dreadful to do those things and what they do to you.

                                The Catcher in the Rye  talks about Holden Caulfield, a teenager with lots of problems which include drinking, excessive profanity, no respect to women, profanity to God, and being ‘anti-white’. During this novel he passes lots of adventures as he waited for the day that their school was supposed to end. In which one of the things he did was get a prostitute but wasn’t able to have sex with her and the booker bet up Holden and left him bleeding. Also they stole money because they told him at the start that it was $5 and then said it was $10. This shows that bad things happen when you do things like that. I think that this part is very good because it is telling us that if we do things like that we may get in problems.

In another part of the book he is in a bar after he talked with an old friend, Luce. He starts drinking and drinking and gets drunk and starts feeling bad. “I kept putting my hands under my jacket, on my stomach and all, to keep the blood from dripping all over the place. I didn’t want anybody to know I was even wounded. I was concealing the fact that I was a wounded sonuvabitch” (Catcher in the Rye 195). This shows that getting drunk is bad because it make you feel bad. The alcohol in Holden and his emotional problems made him feel bad and wounded. This part show that alcohol makes you feel bad and it doesn’t make you forget of your problems but makes you remember them and causes you to feel resentment.

                                Lot of parents wants this book banned because of the bad example it is to kids. It is self-evident that this book contains topics that are very vulgar. Also lots of parents and teachers believe that profanity in a kids life make them feel that it is okay to talk like that. However, this book may have a lot of profanity but it also shows the bad part of drinking among others.  This book makes teenagers see that drinking is bad and makes you feel wounded. This book also shows that no respecting women makes your life miserable as Holden because he could never have a good relationship with a girl without ruining it.  Also he being anti-white has caused him to be kicked out of 3 schools, which will affect his chances of going to a university because no place is going to accept a student that has been kicked out 3 times. 

                                I  believe that The Catcher in the Rye should be teached at school because it shows the bad things of drinking and other topics that teenager do that are not good for them.  Parents have to understand that their kids are going to grew up and aren’t going to be their little babies forever. If parents don’t want their kids to do things like that they should teach them about the topic, and one way is to show them The Catcher in the Rye. If teenager don’t know the problems that drinking, sex, and being anti-white they will do this things thinking that they are no consequences but The Catcher in the Rye shows the problems that this things bring to our lives. Maybe now in this modern society every kid knows about the consequences of this actions but it doesn’t seems like this because teens are doing this every day and every year the percentage of underage drinkers and STD in teens rise. This book should be kept being teacher even in the 21^st century to keep showing awareness of these problems.