... Salinger's control of Holden's easy, conversational manner makes the introduction of these larger themes appear natural and believable. At the time of the novel through today, Holden's speech rings true to the colloquial speech of teenagers. Holden, according to many reviews in the Chicago Tribune, the New Yorker, and the New York Times, accurately captures the informal speech of an average intelligent, educated, northeastern ... Costello, 1990). Again, Salinger creates this speech pattern as believable for a common teenager, yet it also seems to belong individually to Holden. The Catche...

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• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

... that had real political power. The MFDP was never recognized at the convention but from that point on the white delegates were told they had to accept blacks into the system, this and other victories would change national politics forever. Freedom of speech is constantly being challenged, this was just recently an issue in a court case where a Gloucester county school district censored reviews of two R-rated movies ... of such censorship. Many banned books are literary classics, such as The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, which was listed as the number 6 most challenged or banned ...

• Word Count: 2745
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate