Edit to say because I kinda feel bad now: I have nothing against English teachers! Please don’t send your mafia of learned lit nerds after me! …Or do, lit nerds are hot.
Edit to say because I kinda feel bad now: I have nothing against English teachers! Please don’t send your mafia of learned lit nerds after me! …Or do, lit nerds are hot.
I disagree and offer Old Man and the Sea.
I get it, there’s a bunch of symbolism and blah blah blah… I could sum the book up in a sentence and not miss much.
Grapes of Wrath. My class spent an hour and a half discussing a 2 page chapter about a turtle crossing a road…
It was torture.
That was roughly my experience with East of Eden.
Lol you are missing a lot. You just don’t give a shit about what you are missing and that’s entirely fair to have that experience