I'm doing AS english literature at the moment and in 2 weeks I have an exam on The Spire by William Golding. It's full of metaphors and symbolism and Golding uses variable viewpoint, so it's a bit confusing at the best of times.

We've also just finished studying Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare which I really enjoyed. I didn't really like Shakespeare before we studied Much Ado, but now I'm hooked!

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Some dork at the library told me to read Animal Farm when I was eight years old! It scarred me for life... I still shudder when I think of it...

Right now I'm studying <i>The Faerie Queen</i> by Edmund Spencer. And I LOVE it!

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I've finished to read some of Cicero's epistole, and now we're going to read some pieces from de rerum natura by Lucrezio. is going to be boring, I know. meh latin literature.

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luckily I didn't have to read Cicero. We had to decide between Pliny and Cicero and we decided to read Pliny though I doubt that Pliny is better than Cicero. I can only say that I know what u guys are going through, but you'll make it.. I made it as well.

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^ehe yeah that's encouraging...even if I still have another year of latin literature in front of me -.-
italian school is terrible

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yeah I chose Latin, too. I had a choice between Latin and French and at that time I really didn't like French (I'm talking about the language here, NOT the people!!) and so I chose Latin.. a terribly bad choice, but luckily I don't have it anymore now ^^

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Doing Emma by Jane Austen. I really like it so far, anything by Jane Austen tends to appeal to me

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I'm reading Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee in English class. It's just gross

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We're reading "The Glass Menagerie", its actually really good. I was suprised.

"de rerum natura" by Lucrezio, in latin literature. always Tasso in italian literature, we're starting the augustan age in the english one. boring period.

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We're working on "The Cone-gatherers" by Robin Jenkins and Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

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I don't like either of mine. Perhaps it's just my mind-set and i'm just not giving them a fair chance. However it is school and it needs to be done

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I love the way Animal Farm ended. Orwell has guts, publishing that kind of "political insult" during his time period. We just finished Lord of the Flies (fantastic analysis of human nature), and we're about to write a research paper comparing that with Animal Farm.

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*nods at LDM's statement on Lord of the Flies* Absolute genius Golding was. What a moving masterpiece.

Right now in Lit. we're doing a small study on American literature. We've just started up A Lesson Before Dying and already I'm moved by the depth of the story. It is the first real glimpse I think I've ever had of a post-WWII US and its coloured people trying to defy the odds for equality.

So far this year we've read:

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Pretty good)
The Mysterious Stranger, by Mark Twain (Creepy but interesting. I didn't know that Twain could be so depressing.)
The Great Gatsby, by Fitzgerald (Good)
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway (Very good)

Right now we're working on a research paper where we compare and contrast the protagonists from The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises, especially in relation to the "lost generation."

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"Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home."

I don't think we're quite done with Twelfth Night yet, which is fine by me because I like it better than anything school-related I've read in several years. After this I think we're moving on to either Othello or Vanity Fair, which I am NOT looking forward to based on what I've heard about it.

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