![]() ![]() Holden Caulfield, a teenager growing up in 1950s New York, has been expelled school for poor achievement once again. ![]() Superfi cially the story of a young man's expulsion from yet another school, The Catcher in the Rye is in fact a perceptive study of one individual's understanding of his human condition. So what is The Catcher in the Rye actually about? 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, a book describing a nervous breakdown, media speculated widely about the possible connection. Police found the book in his possession upon apprehending the psychologically disturbed Chapman. 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. This book has been steeped in controversy since it was banned in America after it's first publication. ![]()
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