Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
I was fortunate to have an excellent English Lit teacher. I loved it!
|
It's the forced over-analysis of the books which has put off my kids - trying to read far more into every sentence than the author could in any way have plausibly intended. Sometimes if an author says that something is green, it's just because it's green - you really don't need to read layer upon layer of meaning into it.
To be fair, it's not the school's fault (it's a good school), it just seems to be what the current system requires.