My english curriculum:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - About the shitty daily life of a prisoner in a russian gulag
Langston Hughes Peotry - Often about the struggle of normal life, struggle of being black, struggle of etc. etc.
Antigone - Guy dies, sister wants to mourn, Creon says go fuck yourself, everyone dies in the end. Sophoclean (?) tragedy
Their Eyes Were Watching God - A book about a black woman in... the 20s? finding herself, going through one shitty marriage to another until she realizes she is actually in love with a nice but trashy farm worker.
Othello - Shakespearean tragedy.
The Great Gatsby - Cheating, pathetically unrequited love, death
Ake: The Years of Childhood - A light-hearted and funny approach to the awkward and sometimes shitty experiences the author had growing up
The Sound of Waves - Book about awkward japanese teenagers' sexual awakening. It was a nice break from the depressing. The author was a badass. Sepukku after holding a military general hostage in the military base, had his own little mini-following cult army thing, etc. etc.
The Metamorphosis - Gregor turns into a bug. Everyone hates him now. He dies from a rotting apple in his back that his dad threw at him.
That was junior year.
100 Years of Solitude - A bunch of family members repeat the same strange mistakes, it rained for 5 years straight, incest resulted in pig tails, etc. etc. weird as shit book but really good i would recommend it.
Hamlet - Shakespearean tragedy.
Heart of Darkness - If you haven't read it, look at the title. This is not a feelgood book. This is the most cutyourwrists book we have read easily. It's stupid as shit to read (especially the edition i used), fairly boring, and just generally bleeeeegh. I mean, thank you IB, I know racism is bad. I know atrocities occurred in africa. Why are you doing this to me?
John Donne Poetry - metaphysical movement, heavy emphasis on death and what happens after death.
Huck Finn - Kind of a fun one but still kinda bleak whenever you think about Jim's perspective.
Two books to go.
Half the shit we read has a major emphasis on racism.
Hooray IB. Hooray worldliness. Go fuck yourself, world.
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Kuja vs Sephiroth, Kuja flies up in Trance and uses Ultima, Sephiroth is crispy bacon, the end.
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I found a book that said that fear was the most prominent of all emotions, or some such. Obviously the writer was a pussy.
Last edited by Mondt; 02-26-2010 at 09:46 PM.
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