this is a required reading for those taking literature in english 2205. fortunately for my students, i have decided to use Holes by Louis Sachar in my teaching. but unfortunately for me, i have to read all the texts in the current cycle for literature in english.
last year, the literature in english teachers had to watch the movie version of this novel. i slept. so you can just imagine the dread i felt when i had to read the book.
it's supposed to be a science fiction. setting: somewhere in the US (as usual), sometime in the future, when firemen do not put out fire, but actually start a fire on the house of those who misbehave by hiding books. so it's a story of ignorance and the quest for enlightenment and knowledge.
nice concept, but not a smart way to write.
Ray Bradbury is poetic. i can see that in the diction he uses. however, it is well-suited for a more genteel? type of genre. science fiction requires hard facts. the coldness and the precision of the language. but not the artsy, flowery, poetic language.
oh, just to tell you. i slept twice just to read 24 pages. in the matter of 2 days!
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Hey miss nora...I'm taking Advance Placement English here...its like higher level of english and its way way much more difficult than our normal english back home...we covered the whole MacBeth play...and we covered the Romantism age (people like William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats) the lyrical ballads and stuff...and we need to read a novel for every 2 weeks...we done Frankenstein by Mary Shelly and now Tess of D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy...this i think is way ahead than SPM literature...tell ur literature students not to complain if there is any...but overall its very interesting to learn all of this...
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