dasha-loses-it:

perkachow:

queen-of-dirt:

kerryrenaissance:

quasi-normalcy:

The main thing that I recall from high school English is that, after you reach a certain age, the curriculum decides that books with happy endings and likable characters are stupid and babyish and that you’re only allowed dysfunction, oppression, and misery in your literature from now on.

If you somehow avoided depression so far, the school will provide you with some.

Hmmm wow books that are usually made to critique something in society don’t have happy endings. English class isn’t about reading for enjoyment, it’s learning how to analyze and interpret text as well as how to write academic papers based on those interpretations. No one complains that calculus class wasn’t fun enough.

Yeah well it sucks and the human condition is bullshit at least calculus doesn’t put a megaphone on your ear and tell you life is pointless

Scalding hot take: pompous aristocrats, academics and intelligentsia circlejerking about how horrible life is are terrible judges of what good writing is.

High School students already have skyrocketing rates of depression, they know life sucks, let them read something cathartic that makes them feel good for a change.

Also, half of classic prose is just about bad dating experiences, not some deep analysis of social problems.