Michael Gove 'axes To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men from GCSE syllabus' because he "really
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It's usually British literature that puts people to sleep in my class, such as lord of the flies, a tale of two cities, and Shakespeare.
I liked Shakespeare though, but not lord of the flies or tale of two cities.
I remember the books I read in school. To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, and All Quiet on the Western Front are the ones that stick out in my mind the most. That last one was one of the few books that actually upset me with a character's death.
Why does this fuckwit still have his position?
Never heard of either of those, interesting to see that so many have though.
FYI he has had a say since this was posted. Apparently it was one examiner at OCR that said this and the media ran with it without factchecking.
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-27586376[/url]
To be fair American literature is pretty boring. There's a lot of focus on the era around the civil rights movement, and it's really fucking boring.
I enjoyed Of Mice and Men, and enjoyed studying it.
To Kill a Mockingbird, however... while I acknowledge the themes and overall message, I found it utterly boring. I get the worst looks when I say this to English teachers and majors, it's like I'm evil incarnate.
Out of everything we did in school Of Mice and Men was the most fun to study, along with Animal Farm
While we're talking about our favorite books in school, I remember 4 books we read: To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men, and A Time to Kill. Most people got bored of Mockingbird, the class liked Lord of the Flies because our teacher let us do fun projects about it, and everyone loved Of Mice of Men. Then we watched the movie. That ending is probably one of the few times a movie has gotten me to tear up. Not full on crying, but I had some tears. We where reading A Time to Kill, which everyone enjoyed, but someone's mother complained about the beginning, so we had to stop reading it, and the teacher assigned us Mice and Men. Worth it.
To Kill a Mockingbird was and still is an instrumental piece on the subjugation of minorities, but it reads as an exercise in sadism.
[QUOTE=maxumym;44904769]You think that's bad with Shakespeare?
Try being in a russian literature class, reading War and Peace and similar stuff.
[B]Our teacher made me hate Crime and Punishment[/B] I thoroughly enjoyed when I read it for the 1st time.[/QUOTE]
That's just unforgiveable. I mean sure, it is a very "heavy" book but it's so good, and it carries plenty of meaning without having to overanalyze
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