@Nymphomachy So revisitng the subject of high school lit, did you or @arthur_affect ever read Of Mice and Men in high school? I'm thinking about how that's the Steinbeck novel taught in high school over the pro-socialist Grapes of Wrath.
I read both in high school, and Of Mice and Men is obviously easier to teach because it's less than 25% the page count
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They're both socialist though, Of Mice and Men just isn't as developed and explicit The point of Of Mice and Men though is that the promise of capitalism that if you work hard and save prudently you can eventually escape your situation is a filthy lie
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I didn't take _Grapes of Wrath_ in high school, but my friend did. At the time, he told me about it. He read me out a scene at the end where the woman who lost her baby breast-fed the old man to keep him alive. 1/2
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