"The Importance of Work"

The article dealing with "The Catcher in the Rye" made alot of points about banning the book and why it should be banned in schools and from libraries. To me I thought all of this was rediculous and blown out of porportion because there is nothing wrong with the book.
To begin I am not a big reader and reading is not something that I enjoy doing. However, "The Catcher in the Rye" was actually not a bad book and I didn't mind reading it for school. It was one of the more interesting books of the year. If it was banned from schools then we would most likely be stuck reading another boring book that I would have no interest in and in turn learn and take nothing from. By providing schools with interesting books, kids will read more and learn more as I did.
Also I think the reasons for banning it were blown out of porpotion. It was mostly the language and realism of the book that made certain people want to ban it. I believe that the people tryin to ban it for these reasons were ill informed about the real importance of the book and what this language showed. Anyone can talk to a group of parents and show profanity in a book being read by their kids and say that this needs to be banned. Most parents will also agree and try to ban it to protect their kids, but this is before they are informed about how the language is being used. If the parents were to read the book themselves I believe that many opinions would be changed.
The majority of kids reading "The Catcher in the Rye" are young adults. They are mostly 17 and 18 year old seniors in high school and are at the point where they can maturely read a book like this one. The profanity is used to show the readers about innocence. For example it talked about the "fuck yous" sketched on the walls of the schools, but this wasn't thrown in for no reason. We found out the Holden wanted to protect his sister from learning what the word meant because she was young and still had here innocence and innocence is a big theme of the book.
Finally it was said that the realism of the book could set a bad role model for kids. I don't thing that Holden is a role model in any sense, especially for seniors in high school. All the things that Holden does that are bad are shown as bad things so we would learn from his mistakes if anything. His flunking from schools leave him with a bad life that most kids would not want to have so he isn't teaching us to flunk out of school.
All of the reasons described in the article about why the book should be banned are rediculous and blown out of porportion. Anyone wanting to ban this book is either ill informed about the true content or just doesn't understand what the young audience is learning from the book. I can vouch as a young reader and say that I learned alot from it and it should continue to be read. In my mind there is nothing that says Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" should be banned.