Subject: Re: bananafish-digest V1 #306
From: David L. White (d-white@nwu.edu)
Date: Tue May 27 1997 - 13:00:58 GMT
-My first
> instinct was to say that it should be required but it's such an
> incredible book that I'd hate for kids to be put off from it because they
> HAD to read it. Perhaps they could have a sort of "either-or" choice
> between Catcher and another book. . . I don't really know. . .
It's a hard call. My mom was a high school English teacher and she tried
to get me to read CITR throughout my childhood, even going so far as to
read the first couple of chapters to me when I was a kid. I was bored out
of my skull, of course, but it kind of laid the ground work for the
appreciation to come (which didn't happen until well into college), and now
that I'm not too cool to like the same things my mom likes, our mutual
appreciation of JDS has given us something to talk about besides "So, are
you making more than thirty thousand a year yet?"
It seems to me that even if someone is turned off by the book in high
school, the exposure to it might lead to an appreciation later in life.
Maybe.
And having said that, I can't until I get around to reading "Rebecca",
"Lord of the Flies", and "East of Eden" again.
Dave
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