The Catcher in the Rye Argument-Resopnse Paper #3
Saturday, January 19, 2008
The Catcher in the Rye is a phenomenal book, and people are trying to ban it. I don’t think that this amazing book should be banned and I don’t think I’ m alone on that. I have a few reasons why this book should be allowed in schools. The main point is we shouldn’t ban it because this book teaches good morals that could possibly change some persons life, and it’s just a great book overall because of that reason mainly.
In this book, the main character, Holden Caulfield, does many helpful things. One thing he does is he donates ten dollars to charity. Why bring this up, you may ask? You don’t see a lot of people donating to charity anymore, really. If you’re asked to donate you usually say you don’t have any cash on you or something like that to get out of donating your loose change. If everyone donated a dollar or two then we wouldn’t have as much of a problem with homeless children. I’ll admit that I don’t donate every time I get the chance to, but I still do donate every now and then. Reading this book helped me realize that people don’t donate enough of their loose change. This book has a lot of bad situations in it, but it also has its good parts too. The good parts can show how Holden is actually like and how he is around people.
There are many good things about this book, but the one I find that sticks out the most is that the book is realistic. What I mean by that is that some of the stuff that Holden does, almost anyone could do. Anyone could do something helpful like donating money, just like Holden did. Holden donated ten dollars to some nuns and that was helpful. Anyone could donate some money, so this book isn’t all bad. It can actually teach anyone who reads this some good morals. Is it true that Holden paid a man to send him a prostitute. There are a few things wrong with that: Holden is underage and shouldn’t be able to rent out a prostitute for the night. We don’t want kids to think it’s okay to buy a prostitute, so why should we let them read this? We should let them read this book because like I have said before, this is a great book and people should overlook all of the bad stuff in the book. If they don’t want their kids to read this book then don’t let them. You shouldn’t try to take the book away from people who want to read it.
I’ve talked about a couple of reasons why this book should not be banned. There has been that he donates money to some nuns, and this book is pretty realistic. So why ban it? So our children won’t have the chance to read such a great book? I don’t like that idea, but then again, that’s not my idea.
