censorship on Catcher In The Rye
... three or four times at the end of the book (201-204). Holden is as shocked by the word as the reader and he spends the last few pages of the book rubbing the word out when he finds it scrawled on walls in various places. Numerous times Holden Caufield which is the protagonist, swears many times in the entire book. His words used are words we try to keep away from our children, we try to protect them from hearing and using them. There words such as “damn”, “hell”, “crap”, “ass”, and because of the amount of cussing the value of them looses and children see them as normal words to us in everyday life. Coming from an adult and parent perspective, if it were a movie it would not be rated PG-13. The word "fuck" appears three or four times at the end of the book (201-204). Holden is as shocked by the word as the reader and he spends the last few pages of the book rubbing the word out when he finds it scrawled on walls in various places. The only scene that even leans toward occultism is the scene where Holden touches on whether Judas went to hell after betraying Jesus (100). Holden also calls himself an atheist (99) and then goes on to prove that he is a Christian in the next breath. This is the hardest charge against the book to believe. I feel that Holden is making fun of religions, and discriminating against his and others. Holden has a rough time in this book. He gets into a fight with his roommate and gets a bloody nose (43), he gets roughed up by Maurice and punched in the stomach (102), and he has several violent fantasies. The violence in this book is barely at the level of ...