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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden
This book has been steeped in controversy since it was banned in
America after it's first publication. John Lennon's assassin, Mark Chapman,
asked the former beatle to sign a copy of the book earlier in the morning
of the day that he murdered Lennon. Police found the book in his possession
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.... his
eventual nervous collapse.
However, during his psychological battle, life continues on around
Holden as it always had, with the majority of people ignoring the 'madman
stuff' that is happening to him - until it begins to encroach on their well
defined social codes. Progressively through the novel we are challenged to
think about society's attitude to the human condition - does society have
an 'ostrich in the sand' mentality, a deliberate ignorance of the emptiness
that can characterize human existence? And if so, when Caulfield b ....
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