Ah my biggest gripe about English / Literature class! Read this story and regurgitate what the teacher or professor thinks about it for an A.crazy2medic wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 12:15 pm I also had to read "The Pearl" and then write what my take away was about the story! Soooo in my youthful enthusiasm I wrote that the shot taken at the end of the story was ballistically impossible! Teacher informed me that wasn't what she was wanting (she was typical liberal) and yes, I was baiting her!
I got a C on my paper!
Fortunately the better ones were not like that but my junior year teacher, a loud and outspoken liberal, was very much so. It also didn't help that I thought Thoreau and "Walden" was overrated and he loved him.
