what are you takling about ... we had 3 threads like this going at once ... i guess you ahven't been around here recently ...HolyVampire32 wrote:
Actually, I was waiting for eons for this thread title to pop up...
I thought it'd NEVER show since it may have been banned...
I understand that. I try my best not to be force-fed things from books, but it obviously happens in school. Like I said in previous threads, I had great English teachers and therefore, I also love these great literature titles. Either way, I can understand liking the ideas and still not liking it. Live and let live.Savia wrote:I kinda liked the idea behind LotF, but it didn't carry it off as well as I would have liked. Being forced to over-analyse it doesn't help, of course.
Alice is, according to my (reliable) Penguin classics edition, a story that he made up whilst boating around Oxford. He wrote it down later.
when one of my favorite english teachers was in university he had to do some femminism courses ... he said that the corse was jsut horrible, i think he said somethign about men being severly out numbered in that class too. That and Canadien Literature were his two most hated classes ... i don't blame him, canada dosn't have many good authors. But i agree, women were victimized ... but i hate it how the extremists can be. thankfully i've never had to have an encounter with them.skanks wrote:You guys are lucky, we had to study feminism shit for English Lit.
(advanced english)
Everything was about how women are victims, the teacher was forced to do a report on Frankenstien and all the bitch talked about was how the women was treated in it. She was only in the story for like 5 mins!!!
Furthermore we had to read Liddie which is about how some ugly girl works in factor and big gay molests prettier girls then her so she throws a shoe or something at him. Typically it was fucked, the only decent teacher we had left because he wasn't offered any garrentee's. Or school wasn't interested in someone with a Docterite in English and taught me more in the 3 weeks we had him then that feminist bitch did in two years.
dwchang wrote:What?!?!Savia wrote:Lord of the Flies (depressing, not that good)
I loved this book. It had a good message about how even children when put in an independent situation (w/o grown-ups) became evil...basically that man is inherently evil. The kids basically build the same type of society like ours. I mean they even start having a war.
I love the last line where the pilot/rescuer comes and say "Are you guys playing war?" It was such an excellent way to end the book and drive home the message.
Either way, I could see how you would dislike it.
Anyone else see the similarities in Battle Royale to Lord of the Flies?
Yeah. Lewis Carrol was addicted to Opium (I think it was opium) and Alice in Wonderland is one giant drug induced hallucination. Only a stupid company like disney would try and make it a kids movie. I believe my high school now reads it..in the ADVANCED section tooJace Tsunami wrote:Wasn't Alice in Wonderland a big eprson book? But the guy was sos toned writing it, that they changed it up to suit children..
