+226 If you look carefully, you'll notice a recurring theme in the literature read in high school: Life sucks and then you die, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Anyone read the play fences?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

FUCKIN YA in sophomore year American lit. Another few good ones were the Crucible, the Great Gatsby, Romeo and Juliette, ill let you know when I think of others.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

On the first day of English this year my teacher told us, "So basically every book we read this year will have the same theme: people suck." At least it's something I agree with!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Candide: Pretty much. Slaughterhouse-Five: YES. Hamlet: Absolutely! Merchant of Venice: Yup. Wide Sargasso Sea: Yes. The Things They Carried: ...Debatable, but still leaning towards that. Atonement: Yeah. The Great Gatsby: Yes. To be fair, though, Extremely Loud... was very uplifting. And at least The Bell Jar had a positive ending. :P

by Anonymous 11 years ago

the bell jar definitely does not have a positive ending

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's been two years since I read it, but if I remember correctly, I think the book ended with the main character beginning to have hope that her depression could be cured. The endings of all the other books I listed had no hope in their endings whatsoever.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Hamlet. Death of a Salesman. Great Gatsby. Lord of the Flies. Julius Caesar.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Pretty much the theme is Males are overbearing assholes and women are repressed by them, death, pregnancy/abortion, and black people. no offence.

by Anonymous 11 years ago