CeciliaL Posted July 5, 2010 Report Share Posted July 5, 2010 One of my friends for her IOC had to do a passage in a poem that had explicit sexual references, eg "delirous love jelly" I am sure it would have been awkward more awkward than when I had to analyse that passage and explain it to the class, and have my teacher yell out in the middle of my first sentence 'finally we are talking about sex' can you imagine how that would be for her son who is in my class.ROFL. I remember having this really weird conversation about sex in English when we were reading Miss Julie. Something about her (Julie) being on top. Don't ask what took us to that convo, I have no idea. We go off tangent a lot in my Eng class. What was weirder was the class was 4 girls, 1 guy and a male teacher. my teacher yell out in the middle of my first sentence 'finally we are talking about sex' can you imagine how that would be for her son who is in my class.Is it just me or do all English classes somehow end up discussing sex and making innuendos. I love my English class ^^ haha Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tilia Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 Is it just me or do all English classes somehow end up discussing sex and making innuendos. I love my English class ^^ hahaWell, try to find a classic piece of literature without sex references Our teacher actually said that she was ashamed of the books she and another teacher had chosen: "This is embarrassing, two old women like us have such dirty mind as to choose such books" Our books contained at least 3 examples of older women seducing younger boys Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Center Field Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 At our school the depressing nature of the texts we read is a joke!Our teachers haven't really given us a list but this is what we have had so farOedipus Rex-SophoclesKite Runner-Khaled HosseiniFrost Poetry (Usually very sad)Grapes of Wrath-SteinbeckMerchant of Venice and Hamlet-ShakespeareWhitman-theonly happy stuff! Dalloway-Virginia Woolf (sad due to our teachers interpretation)I am somewhat confused with this -part one, part two stuff- would someone please explain it to me Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdomx Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 Quite depressing, especially 'The waitng years' by Fumicko Enchi.My class found Kitchen depressing, but I kind of thought it was a bit..weird Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Center Field Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 lol we can add Antigone to my aforementioned list.As well as Dante's inferno... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
autobahn Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 Nothing particularly happy on my reading list. Like Water for Chocolate was an interesting novel, The Wars is pretty confusing, and I haven't started Hamlet or Death and the Maiden. I'm really dreading IB English.. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anya W Posted September 11, 2010 Report Share Posted September 11, 2010 Is it just me, or are my books easier compared to everyone's? I:The House of Spirits, AllendeSon of Isan, Boontawee (This is a Thai book so I don't think any of you know it)Like Water for Chocolate, EsquivelII:Antigone, SophoclesThe Great Gatsby, FitzgeraldOf Mice and Men, SteinbeckTheir Eyes Were Watching God, HurstonIII:Macbeth, ShakespeareIn Patagonia, ChatwinA Tiger for Malgudi, NarayanWar Poetry, (T.S. Eliot, Owen, Sassoon)IV:The Importance of Being Earnest, WildeThe Crucible, MillerOur Town, Wilder... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommie Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 Well in Australia we HAVE to read Modest Proposal by Swift and Metamorphosis by Kafka....These are both very depressing novellas. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirenMaxence Posted September 19, 2010 Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 haha we did antigone- definitely depressingjulius caesar- again all about deathyou know come to think of it all our A1 test either has gory death, torture or some metaphorical death symbolism in it. Ib's sending us a msg Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaffOfMoonlite Posted September 25, 2010 Report Share Posted September 25, 2010 YES! Oh my goodness; all of our works from last year at least were depressing:Heart of DarknessEthan FromeChronicles of a Death Foretold (well, not so much as the others, but still pretty gruesome)MetamorphosisThe StrangerWoman In The Dunes Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.James Posted October 2, 2010 Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 OedipusWalsh: Canadian play about one of the darkest moments of our historyMacbethEquus Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibisgh3y Posted October 3, 2010 Report Share Posted October 3, 2010 We, Empire of the Sun = I WILL DIE! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrenazbib Posted October 27, 2010 Report Share Posted October 27, 2010 Oh all the depressing texts we did, I think the only ones I actually enojoyed was The House of The Spirits by Isabel Allende and Ariel by Slyvia Plath (poetry).And even those were quite depressing.Othello, Antigone, Oedipus, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Touched With Fire (poetry), Death of a Sales Man...I don't know exactly what kind of morals IB is trying to teach us via English A1... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Center Field Posted October 27, 2010 Report Share Posted October 27, 2010 Well in Australia we HAVE to read Modest Proposal by Swift and Metamorphosis by Kafka....These are both very depressing novellas.Now I realize the Metamorphosis IS depressing.But A Modest Proposal by Swift is an awesome piece of lieterature. Incisive, poignant, and sadisitically humorous.I am not sure if I would label it depressing. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetris-Blocks-For-Brains Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 Our texts aren't too bad so far:The Greeat Gatsby: F Scott FitzgeraldBlood Wedding: Federico Gercia LorcaThe Outsider: CamusAntigone: AnouilhI'm loving all the blood and passion in blood wedding. Makes a nice wake up call after german. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proletariat Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 I can't think of any non-depressing texts. Hour of the Star - nihilistic and infuriatingChronicle of a Death Foretold - title says it allThe Lost Honor of Katarina Blum - SPOILER: she murders someoneThe Assault - WWII aftermaths, dragged over half a decadeOthello - oh godMy poems are all about death (Frost) or rape (Yeats). Even my plays are depressing; one Canadian play we did started a little funny but then turns soul-crushing, and I don't find Taming of the Shrew funny at all. I understand most Shakespeare isn't found humourous by contemporary youth, but anyone who finds Kat's speech at the end funny is not a person I want to talk to. Plus I loved Much Ado when I performed it.I suppose the text that comes closest to being not depressing is A Doll's House. I like how my least depressing text still involves a death, deception, blackmail, sexism, spousal abuse, and the abandonment of one's children. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombat123 Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 My class is reading The Sailor who fell with the grace from the sea right now, and it's not only depressing, but really twisted. I would provide examples, but that might spoil it for some people. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drake Glau Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Let's see...Of Mice and Men - Lenny is shot in the head by his own friend who took care of him all his life after he unintentionally kills someone...Huck Finn - Wasn't depressing actually Dom Casmurro - Since we're all that age, it was depressing to see how some of our thoughts are just that stupid...Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Self explanatory? Reading a book about the history of one man's death?Pedro Parramo - Never figured it out but I think the general consensus of the class was they are all dead and in purgatory...Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare...comedy though, not too bad.Hamlet - It's a Shakespeare tragedy, that's enough to explain it in my opinion.Currently reading Their Eyes Were Watching God now Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetris-Blocks-For-Brains Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 So far we've done: The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald. A Room With a View, Forster. The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov. (For our orals. No problems there except the brain-crushing boredom of A Room With a View.) But then the world of fun of our world lit... The Outsider, Camus. Antigone, Anouilh. Blood Wedding, Lorca. And after 3 months of existentialism/death/more death, my english classes are nap time intermingled with trying to remember what it was like to have the will to live. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
meghankdm Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Is it just me, or are my books easier compared to everyone's? I: The House of Spirits, Allende Son of Isan, Boontawee (This is a Thai book so I don't think any of you know it) Like Water for Chocolate, Esquivel II: Antigone, Sophocles The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston III: Macbeth, Shakespeare In Patagonia, Chatwin A Tiger for Malgudi, Narayan War Poetry, (T.S. Eliot, Owen, Sassoon) IV: The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde The Crucible, Miller Our Town, Wilder ... In India ,we have the following for English A : Literature SL1. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen Antigone - Sophocles 2.Selection of Poems - Robert Frost A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 3.Dr. Faustus - Christopher Marlowe Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw 4.Hamlet - William Shakespeare The Guide - R.K Narayan Selection Of Poems - Robert Browning Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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