We once read a book called "Feed" in high school - a ham fisted anti-capitalist book. Wherein citizens are 100% connected to an internet like service that only exists to sell them products. 90% of the class couldnt get it. Even when the teacher sat down and explained the entire plot of the book they still couldnt wrap their head around it.

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    21 days ago

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      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        When we read it in middle school our teachers gave us an open invitation to discuss the meaning. 99% of the students said it was an allegory for suffering while still being faithful to God, like some kind of virtuous suffering. The teachers didn't really get into how Steinbeck was himself a socialist.

        Also I'm guessing most of the students were giving a kind of "yeah, uh huh" answer.

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    • BigAssBlueBug [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Our school had to ban diary of a wimpy kid because for mandatory reading 90% of kids wanted to read them for the 12th time.

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      Didn’t Ray Bradbury explicitly say Fahrenheit 451 was about how crass and pandering television was compared to literature?

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        He infamously stormed out of a university discussion on the book because he felt everyone there was misinterpreting it.

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        3 years ago

        the way he described TV being customizable to the extant characters would ask your opinion even though you couldn't answer and they would actually say your name is pretty horrifying. I mean, I'm still going to watch Vtubers, but I recognize how messed up it is.

    • Trouble [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      What's R and J about tho, like thematically? Gang wars are bad and dumb?

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        3 years ago

        It's mostly about how allowing blood feuds to decide your life is a really, really bad idea. Like, don't let some kind of vague enmity destroy your life. The reason some of the adults in the story allowed Romeo and Juliet to get married was because they thought it might end the feud, but the reaction was more violent than they expected.