+569 Sometimes your English teacher analyzes the book probably more than the author intended, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

William Faulkner said if you can find it, he probably meant it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

repost...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Students underestimate the amount of thought classic authors put into their writing. A good author isn't going to throw around useless details that have nothing to do with the plot. Everything has a purpose.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not necessarily. I'm reading a book now where there are some details that have nothing to do with the plot. It just makes the book more interesting to read. For example, the author mentioned the character was eating turkey on her sandwhich. I'm sure it had nothing to do with the plot, it just makes the book easier to imagine.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Wait until the poetry unit.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

.......sometimes? freakin English teachers

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My Finnish teacher also analyses and finds deep inner meaning in everything we write in class. I can assure you, I wasn't trying to communicate to the world that I need therapy, especially not via my Kalevala rewrite.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"A book should always mean a great deal more than the author meant" -Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Twain has a note that says, "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished;persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." I had to point this out to my teacher when we were over-analyzing the book.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Movies as well. We're currently doing a study on "Forrest Gump" and we're writing an essay on the theme "destiny." We have to incorporate the feather that is produced multiple times during the film and the teacher told us himself that the director did not have a meaning behind the feather, but he's told us what the feather symbolizes.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Books deserve to have their meanings and potential meanings explored, but I am myself guilty of over-analyzing. Sometimes too much focus on the details can make us lose sight of the big picture.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

lol

by Anonymous 12 years ago