#frex: I HATED Jane Eyre as a 14-yr-old with zero context as to Brontë's life and very little knowledge of the era | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

mercurialmalcontent · 2 months ago

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Take this article with a whole shaker of salt, because one of the teachers Rose Horowitch interviewed says that this article very much misrepresents the things she told her: The Atlantic Did Me Dirty

Ppl on the other hellsite losing their minds over this in every imaginable direction lmao

#I absolutely do not blame kids for not wanting to suffer through the classics #most of them are fucking tedious and irrelevant to their lives!#idk if they're even given any useful context for the era the authors wrote in and their lives #I sure wasn't and that made most classics even more pointlessly boring to me #frex: I HATED Jane Eyre as a 14-yr-old with zero context as to Brontë's life and very little knowledge of the era #I was only able to appreciate the book as an adult who had that context #I probably still wouldn't have liked it much if I'd had that back then #after all I was only having to read it because I'd already read The Hobbit #and was always going to resent it for not being as cool and fun as what the rest of the class got #but I maybe wouldn't have hated it every single page after her childhood friend died #and to be clear: I was a meganerd who read reference books for fun #visiting my grandparents and catching up on their National Geographics was one of my favorite things #I had more stamina for reading than anything else lmao

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