/lit/ - Literature

>>5809000

Trips confirm my high school days were glorious


>Still Junior year
>U.S. History Honors with same teacher as last year
>Read 'The Jungle'
>Enjoy it because I can appreciate the necessary Socialism of the 19th century, while retaining disdain for modern Socialism

>Senior Year
>English 4 (non honors)
>Same weird Slav/Turk lady
>Focus of English IV is English lit
>Beowulf
>Compare translations
>Mexican'treads and illiterate operators of lifted trucks fill the class
>No one can understand what's going on
>"But why didn't Beowulf just kill the dragon by himself?"
>"He was like 80 years old"
>"When did that happen"
>The Canterbury Tales
>We read the intro and like one pilgrim's section
>Macbeth
>I read it all day one because I'm interested/drug free
>Spend the next month bored out of my mind
>Sleep every day
>Le Morte de Arthur
>Wow Lancelot is a cock
>Back to sleep

>Somehow graduate
>Win award for "Most Improved Student"
>Ok