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Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
First Little, Brown and Company, 1951
First Little, Brown and Company, 1951
Teacher recommended age 16 and up.Summary
A teenage boy, who has just been expelled from his private boarding school, decides to spend a few days in New York City before going home to tell his parents.
Language
Violence
Drugs/Alcohol
Religion
A teenage boy, who has just been expelled from his private boarding school, decides to spend a few days in New York City before going home to tell his parents.
Language
- Cursing includes "g*dd*m", "h*ll", "son of a b*tch", "*ss", "f*ck", "d*mn", "b*tches", "b*stard".
- Potentially offensive language includes "chrissake", "Jesus H. Christ", "whore", "crap", "horny".
- Crude words include "butt", "fart" and a reference to girls as "pigs".
- Insults include "faggott", "moron", "jerk", "dopey".
- A character makes reference to having sexual intercourse in the past.
- There is a description of a character "giving it to a babe" in the back of a car and under a boardwalk.
- There is a reference to a character having sex appeal and having multiple sex partners.
- There is a reference to an older woman's sex appeal.
- There is a description of a male cross-dresser.
- There is a description of a female stripper.
- There is a reference to "necking" all night.
- The word "horny" is used to describe sexual desire.
- There are references to a girl's "pretty little butt" and a girl's "cute ass in a skirt".
- A character discusses his virginity and his chances to lose it.
- The main character solicits a prostitute (but does not have sexual intercourse with her).
- There is a mention of bestiality (men with sheep).
- The main character discusses his friend losing his virginity at age 14.
- There is an insinuation that an older male character desires to molest a younger male in his home.
Violence
- A fistfight between students results in a bloody nose.
- A character describes his desire to push someone out a window and cut off his head with an axe.
- There is a mention of parents having "a terrific fight" in the bathroom.
- There is a reference to a movie in which a doctor suffocates a disabled child as a "mercy killing".
- A group of young men pursue their beating victim even after he jumps out of a window to escape the attack.
- A character describes his desire to kill a school vandal by smashing his head on stone steps.
Drugs/Alcohol
- A character makes a highball.
- The main character describes drunkenness as being "oiled".
- The main character smokes tobacco throughout.
- An adult character is referred to as a "booze hound".
- The main character, a minor, orders alcohol at a bar.
- There are frequent mentions of buying alcohol to get drunk.
- The term "dope fiend" is used.
- The main character describes his high tolerance for alcohol yet described "puking" when drunk.
- African Americans are called "coloreds" several times.
Religion
- There are sarcastic references to praying to God and talking to Jesus.
- A character inquires if one must be Catholic to join a monastery.
- A piano player is described as playing something "holy for God".
- The main character describes himself as an atheist.
- A character interacts with two nuns and wonders what they think when reading literature with sexual content.
- A character questions why Catholics always want to know if others are Catholic too.
- The soul of a dead person is described as being in heaven.
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