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Where Triples Go to Die by Phil Hutcheon

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Where Triples Go to Die by Phil Hutcheon

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Where Triples Go to Die is a novel that embodies the chaos of college life. Phil Hutcheon does a great job involving topics that any college student can relate to like sports and romance. However, it involves controversial topics as well, like sex, race, date rape, porn, and unplanned pregnancies. Topics that are very important to discuss today, however would be censored without a doubt during the 1950's.

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The 1950's is a prime example of a time when the government tried to protect the American public from extreme and drastic ideas through the use of censorship. They worked eagerly to control what they saw as inappropriate. Many of which included books during that time. Books like, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.

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According to Sound and Vision Blog, "The use of Salinger’s novel as a set text in schools has been challenged by people who object to its use of swearwords and its sexual content. The work contains several disturbing scenes, including instances of abuse, and is written using 1950s teenage slang. The first curse word appears in the opening of the novel when Holden warns the reader not to expect an account of his unhappy childhood, or as he puts it, ‘that David Copperfield kind of crap’. But there are many more –according to associations who have protested against the novel the word ‘goddam’ appears more than 200 times".

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According to Banned Books Week, "Ellison’s book won the 1953 National Book Award for Fiction because it expertly dealt with issues of black nationalism, Marxism and identity in the twentieth century. Considered to be too expert in its ruminations for some high schools, the book was banned from high school reading lists and schools in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Washington state".

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According to LibGuides, there are many reasons as to why books were chosen to be banned. These reasons include: racial issues, encouragement of "damaging" lifestyles, blasphemous dialog or profanity, sexual situations or dialog, violence or negativity, presence of witchcraft, religious affiliations, political bias, and age inappropriateness. Both books, The Catcher in the Rye and Invisible Man fall under one or more of these reasons for banishment. With that said so does, Where Triples Go to Die.

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As previously explained, Where Triples Go to Die provides readers with information on very current and crucial topics, like sex and race. Unfortunately, these topics, among many others, fall under the reasons as to why books were and could be banned. Here are just a few examples from the novel:
Profanity: Similar to The Catcher in the Rye, in the opening of Where Triples Go to Die the first curse word appears, "What the fuck, Doc? You scared the shit out of me" (6).
Sexual Dialog: "'Breakfast in bed, huh? What's on the menu?' She unbuttoned her blouse, leaned in, braless, nipples at full alert, and reached for the front of his briefs. "Anything you want mister. A hard man is good to find'" (32).
Race: "Do you think I want that nigger shit in my house?' Wade winced, as always, at the slur. He recalled Jackson's telling him that Dawe's father was half-black, his mother white. Dawes was light-complexioned and disdainful of his African heritage" (49).
Rape/Violence/Negativity: Here Wade speaks to Aquino about Camellia Sanchez's charges against Johnny Dawes, "'Christ don't tell me she says he's the one who-' 'beat her up, and-' 'Oh, my God!' '-raped her" (65).
Racial Issues: The first page of chapter 5 provides a quotation by Philip Dray, "Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks' distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without understanding how cheap a black life was for so long a time in our nation's history?" (67). In addition, on page 68 Wade remembers a situation that coincides with the quote, "'I can't believe they locked him up.' He remembered, though, that cops had handcuffed and arrested Joe Morgan at LAX after two World Series titles and two MVPs, mistaking maybe the greatest second baseman in history for a drug dealer because he fit the profile."

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The 1950's was a time when literature censorship was very common. It was a period of change and disorder in America, where individuals' fear affected American life which led to unfortunate results towards literature. The Catcher in the Rye and Invisible Man were two of the many casualties of this negative change throughout America. Having said that, Where Triples Go to Die would add to the list of many novels that were banned during the 1950's due to the reasons explained above.