I don't understand why schools go crazy about writing reports and essays over literature. I get a quiz where you ask students some questions about the book, since it's a part of being cultured, but the rest is nonsense.
I remember studying an obscure Bulgarian poet in school. His works weren't significant prior to the year 2003, but now somehow he became a crucial part of literature...
He came from a very rich family, studied philosophy, wrote poems, had a wife and 5 children, died at the age of 83 in luxury and everything he wrote was how death is the salvation for humanity... and we should embrace death.
And the only way to achieve it was through hard labour and sorrow...
What an asshole... It's like a millionaire going up to a homeless guy and saying "it's ok to be homeless and broke, death will save you, just go hungry and suffer more"
I absolutely hated writing about that poet most people considered an asshole.
If death was salvation, why didn't that motherfucker hang himself and save future generations from his drudgery?
While I DO understand why language, reading, and grammar classes are needed, I do not know why Literature ones are. Literature is not going to help someone in the real world.
For the reading part, it should be something useful for the real world.
For "it's ok to be homeless and broke, death will save you, just go hungry and suffer more", Yeah if I were rich or not I am not) but I would not tell someone that. I firmly believe that if we laugh at or mock someone else's misfortune, we are just asking to be next.
No matter how hard I try, I can't read this book
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I don't understand why schools go crazy about writing reports and essays over literature. I get a quiz where you ask students some questions about the book, since it's a part of being cultured, but the rest is nonsense.
I remember studying an obscure Bulgarian poet in school. His works weren't significant prior to the year 2003, but now somehow he became a crucial part of literature...
He came from a very rich family, studied philosophy, wrote poems, had a wife and 5 children, died at the age of 83 in luxury and everything he wrote was how death is the salvation for humanity... and we should embrace death.
And the only way to achieve it was through hard labour and sorrow...
What an asshole... It's like a millionaire going up to a homeless guy and saying "it's ok to be homeless and broke, death will save you, just go hungry and suffer more"
I absolutely hated writing about that poet most people considered an asshole.
If death was salvation, why didn't that motherfucker hang himself and save future generations from his drudgery?
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While I DO understand why language, reading, and grammar classes are needed, I do not know why Literature ones are. Literature is not going to help someone in the real world.
For the reading part, it should be something useful for the real world.
For "it's ok to be homeless and broke, death will save you, just go hungry and suffer more", Yeah if I were rich or not I am not) but I would not tell someone that. I firmly believe that if we laugh at or mock someone else's misfortune, we are just asking to be next.