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On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:28:50 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:25:11 -0400, Tosk
wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 05:24:40 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

If an English lit teacher was passing out assignments assignments for
students to give a book report. Various books are chosen, some long ,
some short.

OK, the list has several *options* None are specifically required.
Here's a sample list:

"To Kill a Mockingbird"
"All Quiet one the Western Front"
"Gulliver's Travels"
"Moby Dick"
"The book of Matthew"
"Oliver Twist"
"The Trial"

As long as the teacher understands the report might not be positive
and that the reporter may point out incongruities in the story line
and historic inaccuracies, where is the problem?

The problem is that I am sure that "the teacher" wouldn't allow such
criticism of the other works... But I know, it's Christianity so it's ok
to just trash it and forget the content.... pffffttt...

I wrote a lot of cynical book reports. At least they knew I read the
book and perhaps even tried to understand what they were trying to
tell me in a real world context.

My problem with English Lit is that I never saw what others saw -
meaning that I never "grokked" it in the same way. I will admit I was
confused by that until I figured out why.

Everybody else was using Cliff Notes. :)

My favorite story about Eng. Lit. was when we had to read some Maya
Angelou - couple of pieces over the weekend for Monday morning
discussion.

I had been at odds with the professor more than once, but we had a
relatively cordial relationship. That Monday morning, the first thing
he asked was "Mr. Francis - care to tell us what you thought?"

To which I replied "if she's a poet, I'm the King of Siam."

You could have heard a pin drop in that room. :)

Oddly, I got out of that class with an A - apparently the professor
liked contrarian opinions. :)

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