4. The Following PREVIEW has been approved for
STUDENTS OF ENGLISH
by the faculty of DLMHS

5. Read the book that was banned from school libraries all over America.

6. Three days in the life of a sixteen year old boy…
wandering the streets of New York City…
trying not to grow up.

7. The Catcher
in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger

8. HOldEn CauLFieLD There’s a boy who fogs his world
And now he’s getting lazy
There’s no motivation and
Frustration makes him crazy
He makes a plan to take a stand
But always ends up sitting
Someone help him up or he is
Gonna end up quitting
-Green Day
CauLFieLD

9. His older brother D. B. is a Hollywood screenwriter
His older brother D.B. is a Hollywood screenwriter. Holden thinks he’s a sellout.

10. He wants to save her from becoming a phony.
Meet Holden’s little sister, Phoebe. She is the only one he can relate to.
He wants to save her from becoming a phony.

11. Holden couldn’t save his little brother Allie.

12. Sometimes life feels like you’re riding on a carousel…

13. …you go around and around never really getting anywhere.

14. It’s enough to make you crazy.

15. Now for some facts:

16. J. D. Salinger born January 1, 1919, in NYC
educated at a Military Academy
attended New York and Columbia universities
published approximately 21 short stories in the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines during the 1940s
served in the US infantry in World War II: witnessed the horrors of the Normandy invasion.
published The Catcher in the Rye in 1951
Went into seclusion

17. Salinger passed away in 2010.
Thought to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II
turned his back on success and fame
died on Jan 27 at his home in New Hampshire
lived in seclusion for more than 50 years.
He was 91

18. Why can’t we just watch the film?
Salinger vowed never to sell or give away the rights to make a film version of The Catcher in the Rye. Even now, after his death, it is extremely unlikely.

19. FREQUENTLY BANNED IN HIGH SCHOOLS
The American Library Association (ALA) reports that the novel holds the #10 spot as one of "The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of ".
“Goddamn”
89 times
“Chrissake”
18 times
“Ass”
8 times
“Hell”
63 times
“Damn”
39 times
“Bastard”
22 times

20. CENSORED!
In 1960, a teacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was fired for assigning the book to an eleventh-grade English class. The teacher appealed and was reinstated by the school board, but the book was removed from use in the school.
In 1963 a delegation of parents of high school students in Columbus, Ohio, asked the school board to ban The Catcher in the Rye, Brave New World and To Kill a Mockingbird for being 'anti-white' and 'obscene'.

21. Recent Attempts to Censor Literature
A professor at Auburn University in Alabama has published a new edition of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn that replaced the word “nigger” with “slave”.
In 2009 a high school teacher in Seattle proposed eliminating Huck Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Of Mice and Men from the school curriculum because of the use of the n-word.
The n word appears more than 200 times in the book. Using the word slave is ironic since Jim spends the whole story trying to run away from that description of him.

22. Setting: Where and When?
The novel is written in a style called “framed”
The outside frame is Holden telling his story from a “mental institution”. The novel begins and ends in this frame.
The inside story: Pencey Prep School for boys (In Pennsylvania) and New York City: a “flashback” of the previous December, just after WWII ended, in 1949
Other stories that are framed are Frankenstein. Also the princess bride.

23. Outside Frame Establishes time/date Defines the narrator
Prepares reader for the inside narrative
Comes full circle and returns at the end of the story to give the reader a fuller perspective.
Think of the grandfather reading the story to his son in the book/ movie The Princess Bride as an example of a framed story.

24. Inside the Frame: Holden’s story
Flashbacks and memories
Not always in chronological order
A confessional tone: Holden is telling his story in his own words
Stream of consciousness style—random
A lot of repetition
Unreliable narrator: he lies and exaggerates.

25. What is a PREP SCHOOL? You are expected to… Conform to the rules
Be athletic
Excel in your studies
Become a gentleman
Go on to a prestigious college
Get a high paying job
Get married and have children
J.D. Salinger went to this school (ABOVE) at one point and he is said to have based Pencey Prep on it

26. New York City

27. The Dakota Apartment Building
where John Lennon was living and where he was shot and killed, in 1980 by Mark David Chapman, who thought of The Catcher in the Rye as his own personal bible.

29. The man who killed John Lennon in was obsessed with The Catcher in the Rye and believed Lennon was a phony.
JOHN LENNON
MARK DAVID CHAPMAN

30. Book Covers from Around the World What images keep getting repeated?

34. WRITING PROMPT
This photo depicts an idealized version of teens having fun in the 1950s – like in the movie Pleasantville. If you were a teen during this era, would you feel pressured to live up to this expectation? Explain some of the conflicts you might have.