literature

While visiting graduate schools this past month, trying to find the perfect fit, I spent my time in the airports, buses and subways reading "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer. I was told by several friends close to me that the movie was amazing and that the young Chris McCandless (the stories protagonist) was a bold, and awe-invoking character.

I can't contain the venom any longer--I feel a need to abuse readers everywhere. Every reader?

A question has been presenting itself to me throughout the year in my AP English class each time we discuss something we've read, be it a novel or a short story or a poem. We are given a list of things we need to recognize about the piece of literature and be able to explain it.

I'm sorry, this may not be the most progressive of posts. But for serious, I'm looking for some answers to these ever-pressing questions.
-Has anyone seen those smencils?! They're selling them in my school as a fundraiser and I gotta say I think they're like the weirdest things ever. I mean seriously, who ever put the words 'gourmet' and 'pencils' into the same sentence?

It's eleven o'clock at night and I am doing homework for the book "Othello", by William Shakespeare. I find this book very interesting. If it didn't have a lot of the same paralles as my life, I'd probably like it even more.

In my AP English 4 class we just finished reading the book Paradise Lost, by John Milton. We were then assigned questions to be discussed during our Socratic seminar. One of the questions was “Who, if anyone, is the hero in the book? Why?” Well my answer to the question was Satan.

Recently a woman from the Cincinnati Enquirer wrote an article about New Media taking over for Classical Literature. This truly makes me sad. Can it be that the book is "outdated" now? I can't even image a world without books.