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Censorship: A Friend Or Foe' Censorship: A Friend or Foe' “There’s far more to the censorship issue than a ban on sex and four-letter words. I sometimes think that those of us who need to be the most clearheaded about these matters are planting the very trees that obscure our view of the forest” says Dorothy Briley (C5). According to Briley, a vast amount more is needed than simply vulgar language and 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 to shift into adulthood, help them to better comprehend the world and other people. Although it does contain invective speech and sexual connotations, The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger should not be censored in high schools because it rye, catcher, holden, high, school, schools, teenagers, innocence, about, salinger, novel, adulthood, theme, suitcases, students, reader, materialistic, materialism, language, censorship, being, because, young, topics, think, stradlater, one, loss, life, drugs, censored, briley, books