... suggestive material to censor a novel. But this is the very reason why J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is frequently being banned from high schools. To the reader who is at the transition from childhood to adulthood, the protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, becomes the reader's hero. The adolescent mind that Salinger portrays so accurately in his novel is one that most teenagers can identify with. The Catcher in the Rye also contains universal themes that, for teenagers about ... as materialism and losing innocence that few other works of literature have. For...

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