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This is why I hate English class.
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Then again the school system is severely out of date
some peoples’ analysis of literature: not okay
Just like statistics. It’s all about how you do it and what you do with it.
The whole point of literary analysis is to find what works and, hello, what DOESN’T WORK in other forms of literature. So don’t tell me Scarlet Letter is perfect, instead tell me how some symbolism in the novel is done well and some is done like the word “subtle” never existed.
As you can tell from the name, I’m a numbers guy. I loved taking the hardest math, science, technical classes I could. But, naturally, for my high school and undergraduate degrees, the curriculum demanded that you take some fine arts, some belles lettres, etc.
My senior year in high school I took a humanities class. Just a sort of introduction to the concept. We did some looking at painting, some analysis of music, and some lit.
One day I’m reading through a book for fun, completely outside of class, and I realize that I’m seeing where the author’s drawing some parallels between two characters’ plots, or using word choices to make a statement. I forget exactly what. Doesn’t matter.
What I realize is that all of a sudden I am basically reading more book than if I hadn’t heard of all of these concepts. There is actually more book in my hands than I had earlier.
Why learn literary analysis if you’re not a writer, or music theory if you just want to buy some tunes, or math if you’re not a mathematician? Because doing so makes the world grow an extra layer. It’s work when you’re doing homework in school, but once you understand the concepts it just pops out at you. You inhabit a bigger world than you did.
So learn some lit crit. And some math. And some music theory. And some science. And all that stuff.
You can thank money grubbing universities and the retards who thought forcing students to take liberal arts was a good idea.
And this is why I scoff at our current education system and laugh at teacher union strikes since most of them were’t doing their job to begin with.
I especially hate it when teachers do it because they should be spending their time teaching people proper grammar and sentence structure, not discussing novels and short stories
Analysing books is like torture for me..
Enjoying classes?
I’ve never been keen to the abstract sort of thinking in Literary Analysis or Philosophy.
I’m much more adept at concrete logic and memorization, such as mathematics, biology, and computer science.
I’m the exact opposite, I can’t help but over analyze and nit pick to hell everything I read/watch/play
To each his own, I guess.
I don’t read fiction to try to think about any sort of deeper meaning; I just want to watch an entertaining story unfold.