Why Should Catch 22 Be Banned

When Catch-22 was written in 1961 the book was an immediate success, selling 12,000 copies from the middle of October to Thanksgiving. (Wiki Catch-22) Catch-22 never made the New York Times Best Sellers List but it did keep selling. By 1963 the book had sold over a million copies and was a huge success in the United States along with Great Britain. (Wiki Catch-22) So why would schools across the United States want to take this great American Novel away from their children? This book is a very truth unfolding story about the struggles and problems soldiers face. Catch-22 was written by Joseph Heller and when originally published has been reissued numerous times in paperback, hardcover, leather bound, and even on audio cd’s and cassette tapes. The storyline is based on many men of a platoon on a Mediterranean island. The main character is a successful Air …show more content…
This book should not be banned. It is a fact of life, explicit acts of intercourse happen and the experiences depicted in this book show you what happens in life. I do not see these actions of explicitness bad or inappropriate for the readers. Thinking back to middle school, in the sixth grade we started talking about the human sex organs and how they worked. In the seventh grade we had our STD/STI unit in science. And throughout middle school, we had health class that all we talked about was our bodies and how they worked. By the time we got to high school, we were all matured and have the control to read the explicit content that is portrayed in Catch-22 and any other books that have this kind of content. Catch-22 may be challenged or banned in middle schools because of the content that they don’t want their students that are not mature or grown enough to handle the content, but in a high school where most of the students are mature enough to not laugh when they hear a flatulence then they are mature enough to read