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Hello, /lit/. In my Junior year of highschool, I wrote a comparison essay between the books "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and "The Great Gatsby." I didn't know what to write about, so my AP English 11 teacher told me to write about why they didn't interest me (I know, fuck me). So, in response, I wrote what I believed to be a funny little paper the day said paper was due (I typed it out on my iPod Touch during class). It's not quite a satire, not quite a farce, just me being humorous. I got a 99% on it, the highest of the three A's for that paper. Wow. I'm posting it below, tell me what you think.
It's a rough draft, so there will be mistakes, but nothing to detract from the wonderful reading experience (hopefully).

>> No.1970080

Dicks.

>> No.1970085

>Junior year of highschool
4chan is 18+
Shoo.

>> No.1970087

>>1970079

Either you're one lucky bastard or you're a great writer (but only when trying not to be). Either way, congratulations on the high grade.

>> No.1970086

Cocks.

>> No.1970090

Penises.

>> No.1970093

>>1970085
OP is written is past tense.

>> No.1970095

wangs

>> No.1970098

>>1970093
Past tense could be minutes, hours, or days ago.

>> No.1970100

>>1970090
oh my

all these penises are making my mouth water

>> No.1970102
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1970102

Apparently I cannot copy & paste from the Notepad. Fuck.

>> No.1970103

>>1970100
Not that right tripcode.
Try again.
This time put a minimal amount of effort into it.

>> No.1970105
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1970105

Dildos.

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>>1970100

>> No.1970116
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>>1970098
It seems to me that someone just felt like posting "lol underageb&."
The site is 18+, I wrote it in past tense, and this board is /lit/. Do you really think that the chances of me being a junior are that high?

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>>1970105
Sure.

Phalluses.

>> No.1970120

>>1970115
Still the same wrong tripcode.

>>1970116
Considering at least two prominent tripfags on here are underage, among various other confessions, yes, yes I do.

>> No.1970121

Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooock. Cock.

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1970123

Shoop-a-be-bop-de-woop!

>> No.1970128

>>1970123
Who are you to say what and what not people should write?

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>>1970120
Huh. I was unaware of that; then again, I haven't been here for several months.

>> No.1970131

>>1970119
Holocaust means 'sacrifice', you nitwit.

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>>1970128
That is the point, I suppose. I guess I'm writing from the viewpoint of a pseudo-intellectual who believes he has authority in literature.

>> No.1970146

>>1970079
>not quite a satire,
not a satire at all

>not quite a farce
No.

>just me being humorous.
It isn't humorous. What is amusing about it?

>>1970134
>writing from the viewpoint of a pseudo-intellectual who believes he has authority in literature.

In other words, your personal viewpoint.


How sad for you that I'm the only responder and a terrible one at that.

>> No.1970147

>>1970134

It reads like the moral outrage from a prudent old lady. Comedy is subjective but the text doesn't give me any insights or shed some new light on the books.

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>>1970131
lolwut

>> No.1970155

>>1970146
lol i love shit like this

were you ever someone else? are you stradlater's split-personality evil side?

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>>1970146
No, I actually liked both books; it's not my viewpoint.
I had many teachers and classmates laugh about it, though in retrospect it's not THAT humorous. As far as satire goes, I've had several classmates and a teacher call it one so I dunno anymore.

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>>1970146
>>1970146

>It isn't humorous. What is amusing about it?

that's a real fucking neat-o opinion you have there kiddo.

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1970164

Pop pop pop

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1970167

...AAAAANNNDDDD the last few lines.

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>>1970155
Yes, I have used various names and tripcodes, but none of note. Nor am of any note with this one.

My only relation Stradlater is that I convinced him to use a secure tripcode.

>>1970158
>brownbear

>> No.1970189

I suppose nobody liked it or even chuckled a little?

>> No.1970191

>>1970189
Well, aren't you just brimming with self-confidence.

>> No.1970192

you are a fag and you should feel faggy

>> No.1970195

>>1970191
And aren't you just filled with cocks.

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>>1970188
>>1970188

>Bothersome

>> No.1970198

What an absolutely rubbish essay, and
>wrote it on ipod touch
LOLOL WOLOLO

Completely unresearched, from the looks of it very short, and full of purely opinions. You don't even attempt to properly analyse the texts and suggest WHY you don't think they're worth anything, you just spend the whole essay deriding them because you just don't like them.
I assume you went to a terrible high school with a very low standard and scored 99 because you knew how to use spell check and a thesaurus/dictionary properly.

>> No.1970199

Wait just a minute, I just read your tripname.
I get it now.
10/10

>> No.1970202

>>1970188
Wow. Now /lit/ is even screengrabbing the mediocre exchanges. This is a depressing development.

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>>1970197
At least use post count numbers that exist on /lit/.

>> No.1970207

>>1970202
It is of myself, I am free to do what I want.
People are free not to save it or repost it.

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>>1970203
>>1970203

why would i bother using a /lit/ grab when you admit to being an idiot in a /co/ thread?

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>>1970210
>>1970210

>> No.1970218 [DELETED] 

>OP hating on Gatsby because he didn't understand it

ha ha ha oh boy yeah this essay is pretty bad

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1970221

take this bitch

>> No.1970220 [DELETED] 

also this "essay" reeks of asperger's

>> No.1970224

Really, Quentin?
Deleting both of your posts?

>> No.1970229

>>1970210
I freely admit to being a idiot.
I just didn't remember that exchange on /co/.

>> No.1970236

Ironic, Brownbear. It would have been so ironic had I posted as an anon. Then the tables would have been turned (at least in this thread).

>> No.1970239

>>1970224
god you are so dumb

>> No.1970243

I wrote this in Junior year in English.

Supposed to be vignettes about our life like in House on Mango Street. It was the end of the year, I had a solid B so this assignment wouldn't change my grade either way, and it was the first time they gave us free reign to do actual creative writing since kindergarten so I decided to fuck it and have some fun.

There were 5 but this is my favorite one:
>Angsty Epiphanies of an Automobile & Explosion Fueled Mind
They tell you how it's a doggy dog world out there, that life isn't a fair but I don't buy it. If that were true we'd olive offed ourselves aways back. I don't think it's all candy and apples, but these guys, they just don't want you to take your fair share of life's fare. The real dogs in this world, that's what they're. Nasty things, who bite without the bark. Snap with no snarl. I before E except after C. Sure it works for receive but what about ----? I think it's just their way to get your head out of the game. If they trip you down then by definition they get to move up. It's all supply and demand. Well I'm done supplying, it's about time I began with the demanding. So I'm offing a hostage each hour until you supply me with a heli and a speedboat so I can get the heck off of this sinking ship with a crash course headed straight to hell. They say television rots the brains but then that just means I'll be the last one eaten when the zombies arrive, just some food for thought.

>> No.1970246

>>1970239
I agree, refer to
>>1970229

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>>1970236
>>1970236

no don't worry i like you and although i didn't read your essay i think it was a good fresh take on something that is usually so formal and allows very little room for creativity.
you were infusing the 21st century technology and books that were written well before your time, making use of the benefits of both new technology, and the lessons that can be learned from reading such literature.

well done.

>> No.1970264

>>1970243
>but what about ----?
derp, that was a draft. Was trying to think of a word that didn't follow it like conceive.

>> No.1970295

I actually liked OPs work. I was alright for a last minute kinda thing.

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1970305

;_;

>> No.1970311

>>1970305
>4rd
I really hope English isn't your first language.
You are Filipino I bet.

>> No.1970310

>>1970305
>>1970305

i will add you to it l8r okay

>> No.1970315

>>1970311
Interesting guess
no

>> No.1970371

>>1970305
you're trying too hard

>> No.1970373

I thought it was alright.
I liked
>themes of racism and sexism run through them like wildebeests through the Serengeti.

Could've had more lines like that.
Could've been written a bit stupider.
The "Second, how does lightning kill someone" part was a bit silly, since it's not that farfetched to have thunder kill someone. You should've "cited" a study saying only 3 people are hit by lightning a year and only .5 suffer fatal injury, or something like that.

I'm not sure how you got a good score, it wasn't extremely clever, funny or well written. Still alright though. Rambled a lot, not sure what your school taught but mine would've never accepted that essay format. CD's and commentary were all over the place.

>> No.1970380

>>1970371
>adds two letters and an arrow
>excessive effort
okay

>> No.1970387

>>1970315
I assumed since I saw Rangaha assoited with the filipino language.

I also saw others, but I refuse to believe you live where English is your first language.

I saw
>america
>female
and was like lol never.

>> No.1970390

>>1970387
what? you mean I'm not a girl? lolkay

>> No.1970399

>>1970390
http://myanimelist.net/profile/TheRower

Are you saying that is you then?

Which is linked from
http://myanimelist.net/profile/Rangaha

>> No.1970404

>>1970399
Thankfully, no. Rangaha is not my first name, it's just a handle.

>> No.1970407

Got three-four sentences in before I couldn't take anymore.

TONE IT THE FUCK DOWN. Seriously, lower the hyperbole and excessive metaphors.

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>>1970399
>favorite anime
>nodame cantabile
>death note

>> No.1970434

It's shitty. It's just your amateur opinion about literatur. Either you're very naive or a christian fundamentalist for trying to refrain from any work that contains a resemblance to lavish & lascivious symbolisms or analogies.
Fitzgerald doesn't refer to anything, the persona in the text does, for christ's sake. Stop thinking author and narrator are the same thing.
Also, it's fun how you derisively call someone a Fuhrer and then afterwards you peremptorily demands that the book must be thrown out of our libraries and burned.

>> No.1970455

highfalutin as fuck. you're the kid i beat the shit out of in highschool

>> No.1970462

>>1970416
What are you favorite anime Fab?