Literally any book that you now dislike due to school. This also applies to other literature styles as well.

Mine is The Hunger Games. I had to read it las year in school and it drove me insane. We started doing the novel study in early February and didn’t finish until May. I finished the book in less than two weeks, so I was pretty much just reading personal books all through English class for close to two months.

It’s not even like we had to analyze it super intensely. It was projects like ‘Make a playlist for a character of your choice’ and we had vocabulary tests every week, that were a joke. It was multiple choice for words like quest and forage. I know that English wasn’t everyone’s first language but come on.

I didn’t even like the book that much in the first place, so all of this was just adding to the misery.

  • Fourkoboldsinacoat@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thanks to moving to a school that turned out to have an incompetent English department, I ended up doing Romeo and Juliet about 4 fucking times with 3 different teachers. (Yes you’re doing the math correctly, one teacher did the same play two years on the run)

    The second and third teachers were also the sort that go ‘analysis this text, but agree with my analyst 100%, and I’m not going to tell you how I analysed it’

    The fact that the two massively disagreed gave me the impression that analysing text is completely fucking pointless and effectively ‘the curtains are blue because they had to be a colour’

    I’m still awful at analysing sections of a text. Though I’m pretty good at overarching themes, manly because that’s what the first teacher covered.

    She gave me my favourite reading of Romeo and Juliet. The romance is completely set dressing. The real message is how blood feuds are stupid. It’s never actually stated what either family has against the other. If they just stopped fighting, Romeo and Juliet wouldn’t of had the ‘forbidden attraction’ and either would of never of noticed each other or would of only been interested in each other for a few days. Instead they felt the need to keep it a secret, get married in secret and 7 people died and both families lost all male heirs.