Essay Archive - The Catcher In The Rye: Holden
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 upon apprehending the
psychologically disturbed Chapman. However, the book itself contains nothing
that could be attributed with leading Chapman to act as he did - it could have
been any book that he was reading the day he decided to kill John Lennon - and
as a result of the fact that it was 'The Catcher In The Rye',....
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