I hope they cover “authors intent” in english class next week <3

All good :)

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“Korean grocery store only sells kimchi and ramen. Not racially motivated at all btw”

Begging you to develop brain cells

Don’t apologize for wanting that! Just apologize for being obnoxious and coming across a little racist!!

There’s no way reading is this hard

Ah just checked your site and saw prices are available upon request. Would you be willing to share the price of this one? DM is fine if it’s against sub rules

Do you sell your paintings?

I’m super on board with the idea of the conversions, but I’m curious how do you think they could handle the “everyone but me” mentality? Afaik it’s not like we have 60% of office buildings completely full and 40% completely empty. So if you own an office building and you hear that all the government is trying to get all the offices near you to close down, then by saying “okay everyone but me should close down, I’m going to stay open” you can usurp all their business.

Of course, it becomes highly irrational when everyone has this mentality, but it’s the same reason that people speed in traffic and cause more traffic. If everyone agrees, then everything’s great. But if everyone agrees, then the best strategy for me specifically is to not agree. But then this is true for everyone, so in reality no one (or a lot of people) decline.

You don’t need full length novels, but certainly some of the best works of all time are novels and there is intrinsic value to having read them. But yeah, I have many gripes with the American school system, and definitely English classes. But glad we’re on the same page that they’re important!

> I don't believe that's a skill which is all that distinct from general literacy and comprehension, especially given the way English is taught in K-12.

I’m not really sure what you mean by this. You don’t learn to understand themes and motifs, separate authors intent from readers interpretation, etc through “general literacy and comprehension”. Understanding what’s being said and understanding what’s meant are different skills

>There's really very little doubt in my mind that people learn more from reading 1984 than reading about the Soviet Union and analyzing primary source documents

I’m not sure if you meant to say this but I agree with this lol. People do, indeed, learn more (about certain things) from reading 1985 than about the Soviet Union

Because assessing the deeper meaning of media is valuable in more contexts than just historical analysis?