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J. D. Salinger
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of ... or abridging the freedom of speech, or the press." This is part of the first amendment to the United States Constitution regarding the right to the protection of freedom of speech. However, over time, in order to protect the public, peoples rights to speak openly and freely have been censored and revoked (Pinsker, UTCTR 27). A perfect example of this is the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
"This book is part of an overall communist plot in which a lot of people are used and may not even be aware of it" (qtd. in Pinsker, UTCTR 41). This comment, referring to The Catcher in the Rye, does not even begin to show the depth of the controversy surrounding the novel. The Catcher in the Rye is the second most challenged novel in the United States since 1982 (Pinsker, UTCTR 44) and has been censored numerous times. So why, might one ask, did J.D. Salinger write The Catcher in the Rye with such......

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