When Was The Catcher In The Rye Banned

The Catcher In The Rye is a fiction book written by J.D. Salinger. It was published in 1951 and contains 214 pages. The publisher was Little, Brown and Company. If you were to put the book in a certain genre, it would fall under Literary realism and Coming-of-age story.
Originally the book was written for adults but over the years more and more teenagers have been drawn to the book because of the themes and the telling of life of being a kid that age. Within two weeks of being published this book was on New York’s bestseller list. The book sparked a lot of controversy in school. Many schools banned the book, because they considered the “slang” that it contained to be inappropriate. The story takes place in the 1950’s in New York.
Like Ackley, he is also 18 years old. Stralater is a very handsome looking boy but really doesn’t care about other people’s problems or issues. At the same time he was very generous. If he had something that someone else didn’t or couldn’t afford he would give it to him he was that type of guy. There is also another character that didn’t play that big of a role in the story, such as Allie. Allie is Holden’s little brother who died in 1946 of leukemia. He was two years younger than Holden. Holden describes him as, “a nice red head boy”. Holden said that many times teachers would send his parents letter saying how good of a student Allie was. Allie had a baseball mitt he used to write poems on so when he was in the field and nothing was happening he could read them. Whenever Allie died Holden still held on to the glove. The story begins with Holden being kicked out of Pencey. His parents are not aware that he has been kicked out of yet another school. He sticks around the school for awhile so that he is not there whenever his parents find out. After staying a few days, being at the school knowing he must leave soon just makes him depressed. He decides to leave the school early and stay in a hotel until