Thread: Harry Potter - Popular, but never to be a Classic
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Old 11-02-2020, 05:27 PM   #172
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Find other books that tackles such themes. Making kids read such outdated/obsolete language has no bearing on anything relevant. Other then Shakespeare, I have never read any book that uses such old English. I can see this being the case for most students and if it wasn't for school, they would never have to read it.
I had to read (and Memorize parts of) the Beowulf saga in the original Old English when I was in High school. Shakespeare was easy after that. It also gave me a much better understanding of the evolution of language. It definitely didn't make me want to stop reading...Ethan Frome and The Red Badge of Courage did that. (they didn't make me want to stop reading all together, but they did make me want to stop reading those two books!)

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