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Anonymous Mon Aug 12 06:12:41 2013 No.4022299 [Reply] [Original]

Why is this taught in school but This Side of Paradise is not?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 12 06:34:41 2013 No.4022321 Because This Side of Paradise is probably too fucking heavy for the average high school student, whereas pic related is simpler and easier to grasp. Probably the same reason Gatsby is taught instead of TSoP.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 12 06:43:41 2013 No.4022340 >>4022321 TSOP?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 12 07:20:41 2013 No.4022401 Because This Side of Paradise was written almost 100 years ago and the language is very different to what youths speak today. At least The Catcher in the Rye has relatively similar language.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 12 07:24:41 2013 No.4022408 The Catcher in the Rye touches more on the middle class youth, TSoP also includes war and stuff which is kind of irrelevant to a specific teaching module