Subject: Re: Banned Books
From: Lisa M. Rabey (lisar@net-link.net)
Date: Mon Mar 10 1997 - 19:42:31 GMT
>I don't think Catcher was _widely_ banned, just banned more than many
>other books. Not too many towns/schools really ban _any_ books. But
>I'm sure that those that do wouldn't like Catcher!
>
>I think one of the messages of Salinger's writing is permanance. "The
>more things change..." and all that. Holden wanted to keep children
>innocent, but he knew that they will always go off that cliff and always
>have. He just wished there was some way to stop it.
I think, one of the things that have affected me, much as Salingers work
has, is the fact that even though its over 40 years old (CITR), its theme,
still keeps in tune with the times. I wish, that more modern authors (or
perhaps for a better lack of explaining it, new authors of today), would
write something that can speak for all time and not be so dated as they
tend to be now a days.
Innocence is a wonderful thing, and I think that everyone has some
innocence to them, I think, to me, what Holden was, was pure innocence, and
not jaded as some would assume. Why? Because he saw the world with such
naked, raw view. Which is not only scary, but damn frigthening at times.
That is how I often see Holden and other characters, not only in JDS, but
other novelists as well.
>
>Similarly, society will always try to ban books and hold back things
>that they don't like. All the while, though, new works will keep
>creeping in and the old ones won't seem so bad anymore...
Don'tcha just -love- living in a modern society. What we don't fear we
embrace, and what we fear, we try to get rid of. My words actually...in
case anyone is wondering :)
>
>Personally, "Catcher" and "Nine Stories" was required reading when I was
>in High School (in the 80s), as was "F451", "Animal Farm", "Huck Finn",
>and even the racier "Canturbury Tales". Some were only part of the
>curriculum for "Advanced" classes, but they were there!
Huck Finn and other 'classics' (which is always subjective with me), i read
when i was younger. LIke i stated in my hello message, I didn't read CITR
til much later, after high school, and wasn't til one of my enlighs lit
courses in college that i read F451. But both those books were both
taught at my college (shocking!), but never in highschool..it may have been
for the fact that my AP 9th grade english class, all the boys tithered in
glee when we saw the 1969 version of "Romeo and Juliet" and Juliet was bare
breasted..hmmm..could just imagine what it would ahve been if we got to say
fuck!
;)
ttfn.
Lisa
Lisa M. Rabey
NetLink Systems, LLC
Tech Support and Web Design
http://www.net-link.net/~lisar
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