What books are you badly served by being made to read in high school?https://twitter.com/AlanLevinovitz/status/1305560986221457411 …
I disliked "Things Fall Apart" when I first read it mostly because it was presented as a one-sided tale of colonial oppression. I was surprised re-reading it as an adult to come to realize that Achebe is as harshly critical of Okonkwo and Umuofia's society as he is the foreigners
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...and that it was a much richer and more complex assessment of the entire tragedy.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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oh yeah, the twin deaths and all
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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In HS when we read the book I was one of a deep minority of students who found the existing society to be lacking too. The way that marriage is discussed alone is deeply uncomfortable.
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didn't know and am oddly cheered by Achebe apparently being a common HS read in the United States.
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