American literature plays a large role in shaping the culture in our everyday society. In the Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield is hanging on to the brim of popular culture. He observes everything to be phony like movies, plays, musicians, etc. He has to realize that the human culture isn't all good and perfect and that mistakes can be made. Holden forgets to see his own phoniness, in his imaginary world of phonies. For example on the train with Mrs. Morrow, if he saw someone else playing a joke on her like he did. He would describe them as phony in his cynical point of view. Yet, Holdem is also one of the greatest characters in American Literature for this reason. He is a voice that is not easily forgotten, someone different then the usual child of his age. Thinking and analyzing every situation encountered. Yet, we must come to think about the end of the novel, when Holden is put into therapy because he has not blended into the American culture? Is this the price he pays for merely not accepting culture and seeking to be different then everyone else?
             In today's society Hollywood moviemakers are trying to make the classic books into movies. The problem is that the moviemakers like to change the story line to sell the movie as exciting or entertaining as opposed to making the watcher think. When they do this people decide why read the book when we simply can see the movie.
             Problems with watching movies however that is you're not forced to read or learn vocabulary. The original version or meaning of the writing is skewed and the vocabulary is usually simplified as to make it less challenging to the watcher. Very rarely do you hear a word in a movie that would require me to pull out my portable PDA and look it up...oops I mean my dictionary....... In books there are many words which we do not know and may have to look them up granting us a greater knowledge of vocabulary.
             Some comic books like Batman and Ro...