6/25/2023 0 Comments The goldfinch book synopsisHe was a teenager who didn’t really want to grow up and had an idealized view of how childhood should be. So what was it about Catcher that made it banned? For me, the book was about a young man who wasn’t able to connect well with others. The Catcher in the Rye was one of the only books I read back to back to back. Then I read it and was introduced to Holden Caulfield, who I would soon call a brother because of how he seemed to be me, or at least a shadow of me carried by the hot sun of Salinger’s early creativity. So it was with great delight that I was able to buy a copy of the book in 1981 at the local Walden Books store, who provided it from a box in the backroom and sold to me wrapped in brown paper so no one would see what I’d purchased. By banned I mean that the book was considered an unhealthy read and stores and libraries were urged not to provide them to young healthy minds. By banned, I don’t mean that there were any Fahrenheit 451 Fireman to come and burn them up - although I am sure there were those who wished that to be true. The reason I’d only heard about it and not seen it was because I was living in Tennessee and at the time it was a banned book. I’d also heard about it through a Freshman English teacher at my High School. I’d heard about this 1950s novel through my parents, both educators. I was introduced to the idea of The Catcher in the Ryein 1979.
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