Abstract
opmentally inappropriate for adolescents. While the censors can arguably be rejected on the grounds that they misconstrue the moral structure of these works, this new critique represents, I will argue, a failure to understand adolescents. It also embodies a prevailing attitude toward young people; one that, I fear, would be adopted by many adults if they bothered to read and reflect on the appropriateness of these works. Representative of this view is an article by Donald Barr (1986, Should Holden Caulfield Read These Books? New York Times Book Review, 4 May: 1, 50-51), in which he questions the wisdom of having adolescents read such works as Catcher in the Rye, A Separate Peace, Lord of the Flies, and To Kill a Mockingbird. His complaint is twofold. In the first place, he contends that they are unfit because they tend to call undue attention to the world of the
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