Birthday • 1990-05-20 Gender •
Female Location • Koreatown, Chicago (seriously) Member Since • 2005-10-16 Occupation • recently promoted to Ultimate Fangirl :3 Real Name • H.L.
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Goals • To become mature enough to accomplish something in my life. Hobbies • Dolls, photography, films, music, and anything even remotely artsy. Talents • Writing, occasionally being very creative, and thinking I'm funny.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
On Literature students and how they approach reading.
It honestly disappoints me that most students are presumptuous enough to so quickly dismiss respected works of literature, often on the basis that the book was "boring" or "the language was too difficult." I don't think anyone would realistically expect all or even most students to appreciate the works they read for class, no matter how important the book or author they're studying is considered. However, it would be nice if students at least tried to find out why the book or author is held in such high regard rather than dismiss it right off the bat.
Literature (referring specifically to "canonical" works) is not entertainment. Its purpose isn't to pander to the reader's interests. Complaining that Literature class is a waste of time because you don't enjoy the books you're reading is like complaining that Math is a waste of time because you don't enjoy doing logarithms. In Literature classes, there will always be required reading that will bore the hell out of you--but you're missing out on the whole point of Literature as a subject if you automatically judge these works as "pointless" or "not worth spending time on" because they're a struggle to read.
...Okay, there is NO good segue that could transition from that to the video below, so I won't even try. I dug this up while procrastinating doing homework last night:
Junsu is being interviewed on what he thought of their Budokan concert, while the rest of the boys decide to be stupid and imitate Jaws in the background. I love how Junsu's only response to the idiocy going on behind him is, "chotto dekinai desu ne."
roselit@LJ even managed to make an icon out of Yunho's split-second shark face. XDD
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