Cultural Refernces to the Catcher in the Rye

After browsing the web looking for a topic to blog on, I found some cool facts and other works that the Catcher in the Rye has inspired.

• One of the most famous incidents associated with the Catcher in the Rye is the murder of John Lennon.  Mark David Chapman is the murderer and he was so obsessed with the character Holden Caulfield that he tried to change his name to Holden Caulfield. Also on the night that Chapman shot John Lennon he was found with a copy of the Catcher in the Rye and he had written "This is my statement" and signed his name as Holden Caulfield. While he was in court he read a passage from the book as his defence and some say he shot John Lennon to preserve his innocence much like Holden wanted to preserve children's innocence.
• If you have ever seen the movie The Shining one of the main characters, Wendy, is seen reading The Catcher in the Rye, which is a foreshadow to the loneliness similar to that of Holden.
• One of the South Park episodes pokes fun at how controversial the book is. In the episode Butters is  brainwashed into killing John Lennon and Ronald Reagan after reading it.
• In the comic strip "Fox Trot" one of the characters is seen reading "The Pitcher in the Wheat." 
• There were a ton of songs that had references to the Catcher in the Rye but some that stood out to me were: The Aesop Rock song Save Yourself and it contained the line  "Naw man it wasn't me, it was Holden Caulfield, brother / I just read and pulled the trigger." , The Beastie Boys song Shadrach and it contained the line  "Got more stories than J. D. got Salinger, I hold the title and you are the challenger.", and also even the Jonas Bros had a reference with the song Six Minutes which contained the line "Sometimes I feel like I'm a catcher in the rye / Sometimes I just wanna catch her eye."

Before this class I had never even heard of the book The Catcher in the Rye, but after reading it I can understand a lot of references. I defiantly feel this book was worth my time to read.