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DaEpikDude

Discuss anything you're analysing in English!
Rules:
1: Follow the CG's!
2: Try not to have too much spiced ham in a can.
3: idk

And all the world over, each nation's the same,
They've simply no notion of playing the game.
They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won,
And they practice beforehand, which ruins the fun!

Dabzers

Fredrick Douglass' 1st autobiography.

Next we are reading The Crucible. Hype for that

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DaEpikDude

how many people have studied lord of the flies

And all the world over, each nation's the same,
They've simply no notion of playing the game.
They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won,
And they practice beforehand, which ruins the fun!

BaconAndEggs1School

We were required to pick out a book from our school library to read whenever we had spare time in English and maybe we were going to do assignments on them, so I picked out ‘Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?’ since I was aiming to go for a very well-established novel. I've since moved to a different English class where there's no requirement (let alone time) to read, so I've left it for a while on page 20, but I'm intrigued by what I've read so far. It features more social satire than the consistently serious tone I was expecting, which I don't find to be a bad thing. I feel like there are bleak undercurrents in it that might develop as I read on too, so I'm gonna see if I'll pick it back up again.

Kara-Danvers

Baz Lurhmann's modern adaptation of Romeo + Juliet.

owlannaelsa

Kara-Danvers wrote:
Baz Lurhmann's modern adaptation of Romeo + Juliet.

There was a cringey animation I watched (not Gnomeo)

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-ColorMaster-

Ernest Hemingway's “The Old Man and The Sea” (does American Literature count?), I'm also writing an essay on it as I'm typing this

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DaEpikDude

-ColorMaster- wrote:
Ernest Hemingway's “The Old Man and The Sea” (does American Literature count?), I'm also writing an essay on it as I'm typing this

1: Yes
2: As you're typing it? That's some pretty insane multitasking there

And all the world over, each nation's the same,
They've simply no notion of playing the game.
They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won,
And they practice beforehand, which ruins the fun!

RandomCatz4Life

We just have this ginormous book full of mythology, I really enjoy everything we read in it though. I don't know ANYTHING about mythology but all of my friends do, they're obsessed with it

she / her / hers

<3

Dabzers

RandomCatz4Life wrote:
We just have this ginormous book full of mythology, I really enjoy everything we read in it though. I don't know ANYTHING about mythology but all of my friends do, they're obsessed with it

Its good yo sis

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Dabzers

Kara-Danvers wrote:
Baz Lurhmann's modern adaptation of Romeo + Juliet.

I didnt like either the old or the new version.

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BaconAndEggs1School

Kara-Danvers wrote:
Baz Lurhmann's modern adaptation of Romeo + Juliet.

Ah, neat, I remember that one! We watched that as part of a Romeo and Juliet assignment, alongside some more films based on it (the 1968 Franco Zeffirelli version, West Side Story and Warm Bodies). Hearing the original dialogue being used in a movie set in the 90's was very weird but it was interesting too.

Kara-Danvers

Dabzers wrote:
Kara-Danvers wrote:
Baz Lurhmann's modern adaptation of Romeo + Juliet.
I didnt like either the old or the new version.

I love this version.

gigamushroom

BaconAndEggs1School wrote:
“Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?”

Hearing the title of that puts weird images in my head. I wonder what it's about.

“You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’”

Dabzers

gigamushroom wrote:
BaconAndEggs1School wrote:
“Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?”
Hearing the title of that puts weird images in my head. I wonder what it's about.

Its Blade Runner.

It inspired it.

If that helps.

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Dabzers

Why do you never read the best Shakesphere play in English class? (Midsummer's Nights Dream)

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DaEpikDude

Dabzers wrote:
Why do you never read the best Shakesphere play in English class? (Midsummer's Nights Dream)

we did

And all the world over, each nation's the same,
They've simply no notion of playing the game.
They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won,
And they practice beforehand, which ruins the fun!

Dabzers

DaEpikDude wrote:
Dabzers wrote:
Why do you never read the best Shakesphere play in English class? (Midsummer's Nights Dream)
we did

Good.

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Ryasis

Dabzers wrote:
DaEpikDude wrote:
Dabzers wrote:
Why do you never read the best Shakesphere play in English class? (Midsummer's Nights Dream)
we did
Good.

Oh yeah I remember. We acted it out in the 8th grade. It was amazing.

Smug scottish ego

DaEpikDude

Ryasis wrote:
Dabzers wrote:
DaEpikDude wrote:
Dabzers wrote:
Why do you never read the best Shakesphere play in English class? (Midsummer's Nights Dream)
we did
Good.
Oh yeah I remember. We acted it out in the 8th grade. It was amazing.

we're doing othello now

And all the world over, each nation's the same,
They've simply no notion of playing the game.
They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won,
And they practice beforehand, which ruins the fun!

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