So my buddy is a college professor who teaches some Intro to College Lit course. (This is actually not true). Anyway, in this fake class he gives his fake students assignments to read that are considered classics of American literature. Being college educated in the Northeast, he brainstormed with me as to what we read as college kids (aside from Penthouse Forum). So he assigns his class The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. When I ask him why, he tells me that it will give them a chance to draw parallels to modern life. Of course, the famous Tom Sawyer story, according to what I just read on Wikipedia, is the bit where he gets banished to the front yard and made to whitewash the fence. Being the clever scamp that he is, he pretends that painting the fence is fun (maybe you should've read more Daniel-san). So we're talking about the student's discussion period and of course they all compare the fence painting to the parallels in our own society. Co-workers pawning their work off on you, students asking for your notes when they skipped class or whatever. But this is my problem with the classics. At this point, isn't this story pretty much irrelevant? Is anyone still dumb enough to fall for this sort of shit? Classics are on the list.
UPDATE: Wait just a goddamned second!!!
UPDATE: Wait just a goddamned second!!!
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9 comments:
made me l0L.
this kid, tommy belotti, he loves and hates me pretty good.
seriously though, tom sawyer is a book i read when i was 10, and its usually at least part of most middle school curricula. did you go to westfield state or something?
right before you burned it?
why would i burn it?
slow day outside the abortion clinic?
there is never a slow day outside there.
Re: reading this in 6th grade. Wasn't really going for historical accuracy here, was I?
weren't you?
not commenting enough on this blog is on the list.
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