I Enjoy Reading Almost As Much As I Enjoy Cell Phone Case And Camera Holder
I can’t believe that I lost my phone holder, I found this old copy of Huckleberry Finn underneath my bed. I like Mark Twain a lot because I find him eminently quotable. What is weird about the situation is that I really don’t like his books . For some reason I just can’t get into them like other books . I have a high regard for his style of writing though . When I was young I really didn’t have the time or patience to read Mark Twain . I was assigned to read Huckleberry Finn with 3 weeks left in the school year. I was obviously really upset by the assignment . I really didn’t have much respect for that teacher, I thought her to be somewhat of an imbecile . She’d read out loud passages from the novel and act them out in front of us. Whenever a character cursed or used a racial slur, she’d refuse to say it. Instead she’d substitute for each by saying “slave” or “oh sugar” or something else. This was the type of English teacher who thought a book had to be a couple of hundred years old to be any good and that everything being written today is trash. She felt that James Patterson and Stephen King would be long gone and forgotten in the near future . She is obviously a dull person because if she were to pay attention to any modern literature, she would notice that the two novelists are the most popular contemporary writers and do not seem to be going anywhere any time soon . She has nothing to base all that on.
Date posted: Sunday, June 29th, 2008 4:08 pm | Under category: Education
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