Subject: Re: Banned Books
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 08 1997 - 13:12:17 GMT
Lisa, I'm pretty certain that catcher is widely banned. It usually makes
the 10 most banned books list but I'm not certain about how to access that
info--I served on a committee for a while with the Colorado language Arts
society and libraries and small schools seem to have problems with a
variety of great books...my "favorite" on this was published on page 22 of
the 9/3/89 nytimes about banning catcher in boron, california.
"Vickie Swindler, the parent who raised the first objections when her 14
year-old daughter, Brook, showed her the book, has been calling around
town to her friends, reading passages from it, mostly the one on page 32
with three goddamns in it."
"When she found out about the langage in it, Mrs. Swindler said, '
I called the school and I said How the hell did this teacher get this
book?'" It was reported that Swindler had not read the book and didn't
"need" to (even though holden could have taught shown her more depth to
her own ideas!).
The times even published an editorial on holden that day under the
heading,
"A Model for Teen-Agers."
BTW, the Boron teacher who was forced not to use catcher in her class
replaced it with Farenheit 451!
will
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