High school
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Uch.. I've read that damn book twice (in my own free time) and I still don't get what's so great about it. The whole point seems to be that it is dull in order to reflect the life of Gatsby...Brotherofwill said:
And no, I don't just read 'action' books or have a 'short attention span'. I love books by Tolstoy, Melville and Dickens. I just don't see how Fitzgerald represents the 'pinnacle' of American literature which is where some put him.
That would be amazing (I loved that book). But surely you could analyze that book for years and still not find all the hidden meanings?Earthbound said:
... I'm so co-o-o-old! Let me in yoo-ur window!EmileeElectro said:
I just finished that this afternoon, and despite all my preconceptions about it being turgid rubbish, I really liked it. (and man, Heathcliff is a major prick)EmileeElectro said:
To the OP:
Its because high school is about assesing your ability to study a work, find the concepts and notions and then demonstrate what you have found through writing.
Basically, its about your capacity to learn and understand. If you can relate to the text (or even if you like it or not) should be immaterial.
What you have to realize is that high school is all about teaching you things and making you do things you don't want to do. That's completely on purpose. It's designed to get you to dive into things that you wouldn't have otherwise dived into. And yeah your gonna hit some crap on your way down but your also gonna hit some stuff that you love.hxcfreak said:
A prime example of this is that my school made me take drama. I HATE drama, I get stage fright and I can't memorize for nothing. But, it got me into the behinds the scene stuff. I found out that I was a great sound designer. That's something that I would have never thought I was good at.
Basically, suck it up, everyone goes through it. Learn something and make something of yourself.
I read the merchant of Venice.
Got an A and hated the book, but I understood it which is why you have to read through those books. They give you something that'seasy to mark...I mean...Fucking easy to mark, they don't want to have to read through all the books submitted so go through the same few again and again which they either already know, can read a textbook on or show off as much of the course material as possible.
Don't worry about it, school is there to be enjoyed by the people who are either already rich or plan on being janitors, keep working and you can spend the rest of your life reading what you want while you pretend to work.
Got an A and hated the book, but I understood it which is why you have to read through those books. They give you something that's
Don't worry about it, school is there to be enjoyed by the people who are either already rich or plan on being janitors, keep working and you can spend the rest of your life reading what you want while you pretend to work.
[small]...I liked them...[/small] but then again I read what I have read of his work while in hospital. Reading anything in hospital is preferable to just sitting there doing nothing (I got through so many books the staff in the hospital thought I was an English major...).galletea said:
Ok, prove me wrong why don't you...Lukeje said:
But honestly, while I can appreciate the writing and the characters, the plot is always so very bleak. I think I'll stick with Dickens, at least something good will happen to someone in those books.
There are plenty, though not so much the English ones. I'm enjoying Arthur Conan Doyle's stories at the moment. Sherlock Holmes is awesome.Lukeje said:
Classic literature does cover pretty much everything that's in the public domain though,so Shakespeare comes into it, and he wrote a few cheerful plays.
Don't. It's so much simpler to use SparkNotes.hxcfreak said:
I did that for most of the books that I honestly couldn't get into, and still got an A+.
Seconded.Captain_Maku said:
I fucking loved that book, I even cried at the end.
Wasn't really a fan of Steinbeck's writing style though...
I guess I could relate to the characters because I had a friend who had Asperger's, and didn't understand social etiquette and how certain types of body language could mean different things.
I'll put my neck on the line here and say that I read Lord of the Flies in English and thought it was awesome. In fact I've read it since then.Gormourn said:
I had to read Catcher in the Rye last year and it was great, in a morbid sick way. Also I had to read Winesburg Ohio. That was one of the best books I had ever read. So my history with books in High school is pretty good, but I also had a kick ass English teacher! I hated the great Gatsby with a passion and I read it on my own time. Mice and men I have only seen the play and I hated that too. So its hit and miss.