/lit/ - Literature

I loved this book when I was eight; in elementary school I probably read it about twenty or thirty times. When I heard that for tenth grade English I would once again get to read and analyze one of the beloved books of my childhood, I was excited. I wanted to talk about this book, I wanted to write about it, and I wanted to read again -- but nobody else did.

Everybody talked constant shit about To Kill a Mockingbird, and even though it was an honors English class, barely anybody even bothered to read it. The ones who did read it just followed everything my teacher said, which was mostly negative (too much "n word" use, Atticus is an unrealistic character, do you kids know how to spell "socioeconomic background"? Well here's how, and I want you to underline every single time poverty is mentioned in the book, and yes I will be checking to make sure you annotated). Basically it was complete nightmare. I haven't read it since then, but I still feel a tiny smidgen of pain whenever I see some fifteen year old bashing TKAM on /lit/. It's a good book, you guys, really...