Another Rant

It’s very funny to watch people read a book you’ve already read. Granted, it was a year ago, but I’ve already read The Great Gatsby, and watched the movie. I get a certain kind of knowing bliss when I hear the class make predictions or try to figure out what a certain character is going to do later. And when people make predictions in the group chat, I basically laugh out loud. It’s given me a kind of godlike feeling, which is most certainly how Mrs. Valentino feels watching students read the same books every year. It has given me a strange bit of insight however, that I never thought about before; students always tend to jump to deaths. I cannot count how many times in class I’ve heard that this character or that character was probably going to die by the end of the novel. It’s insane how English students can get so incredibly morbid about fictional characters, going as far as to predict how they will die. This makes sense though, all the books we’ve been required to read up until this point have been incredibly dark, switching from being fun and light hearted books in elementary school to dark and depressing topics in middle school like A Tale of Two Cities. This kind of switch in education aligns with how the switch in teaching of children occurs as well. Instead of learning about fun and interesting topics with interactive lessons. Middle school and high school brought along a slew of dark and confusing topics with boring lessons of listening to people lecture. Now that I’m done going through that rant, I just want to say one concluding thing: never trust your first prediction, it’s probably wrong.