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In the Classroom: Don’t Blame the Book « educating alice

  • kids are not in school so that they can tell us what they think about Holden
    Caulfield. They’re in school to learn what to think about
  • To me the missing ingredient in this discussion is the teacher.  A great
    teacher can make most books interesting. (Mind you — I’m not saying
    likable.  You can enjoy the experience of reading and talking about a
    particular book
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Shouts & Murmurs: Book Club: Humor: The New Yorker

  • 4. Book-club members who have actually read this book have called its plot
    “depressing,” “disgusting,” and “too much about poor people.” Does this suggest
    that you, as a reader, have a moral obligation to say that you liked the
    book?

  • 5. Early in the prologue, we learn that lab animals will be mistreated as the
    story progresses. In literature, why is it so much sadder when an animal dies
    than when a person does? Why does God choose us to read horrible things like
    this?

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