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modern classics as vines p. 1
(spoilers ahead!)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Atticus: There’s only one thing worse than a rapist – boom.
Bob Ewell, when talking about Scout and Jem: A child.
Atticus: No!
source: x
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Holden, to anyone he meets: Hi, my name is failure and you’re watching my life crumble into pieces. DOY DA DOY DOY DO DOY–
source: x
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Ralph: I dunno ‘bout all y’all – AAAAH! You better stop, stop!
Jack: *lighting the island on fire*
Ralph: BIsGHshtG – STOP!
Jack: *sends out hunters to kill Ralph*
Ralph: AAaaAAaAAAAh!
source: x
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
George: *flips plastic bottle* *bottle lands perfectly*
Lennie: *flips glass bottle* *bottle shatters*
Lennie: *dabs*
George: *disappointed look*
source: x
The Outsiders by S.E Hinton
Johnny and Bob: *fighting*
Ponyboy: Can I get a waffle?
Johnny: *stabs Bob*
Ponyboy: Can I please get a waffle?
source: x
I’ve noticed since I started working on my wip every day that I’ve gotten better at writing nonsense to fill the word counts on my assignments
Anyone up for a round of Spot the English Major?
I hate transition sentences. You know I'm on a different topic, I changed paragraphs, why do I need to spoonfeed you into the next point in my argument? Grow a pear
Everyone please yell at me, I'm not doing my assignment that's due tommorow even though I'm fully able and capable :(
I hate Stephen Dedalus.
being an english major is just having to put off writing the fanfic you're hyperfixed on in order to write a fictional story for class
me when someone in a crw class asks how i learned to write full story arch’s in short fiction but my deep dark secret is that i started writing fanfics at 12
If I have to read one more Wordsworth poem, I'm going to set my book ablaze!
I can't crush on an author cus I'll end up reading his books pretending he only wrote it for me. Giggling conspiratorially like he's sending me multiple dm's
As a black English major, I know I could pull him
When I actually have all of them that I doubt my existence....
No self-proclaimed bookworm has all five:
1. Reading every day
2. A good grade in English class
3. Trying books outside their preferred genre
4. Realistic dating standards
5. The ability to pronounce the words you read
British Manne: From the nascent thoughts of my earliest infancy, I have found the existance of women farcical and the scent of them intolerable.
Junior year English professor with two grandkids, three nose rings, and a ziggy stardust tat on her right buttcheek (ask me after class, honey) : Oh! Oh! A romantíc novelle if ever there was. The great-est love balláde of the West.
Most everything influences my work. Working in a used bookstore. Going for walks in the woods and peering at mushrooms. Writing reviews….. Ariel Gordon. Just after I pulled into my parking space I glanced up and saw a lone mushroom growing smack dab in the middle of this tree stump & as I took a moment to watch the dappled sunlight play over this brave wee jewel, I pondered all of the metaphors for life one could draw from it & decided I’d just ponder them in my heart & let you make your own….feel free to share:-). This concludes Morning Musings with an English Major, you may now return to your regularly scheduled lives…. ;-) lol. Bon Jeudi, mes amis!
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. Arthur Schopenhauer Well, Mr, Schopenhauer, I do get where you’re going with this, I’d counter that as a believer in G-d, we’re never alone, but He’s with us in our solitude……therefore, in solitude we can truly engage in & embrace our freedom. If we never need experience the depths of despair & loneliness, then solitude becomes a respite where we are truly able to be free & can take that joy to the rest of our lives…….okay, wow, didn’t see that coming, stepping down from the soapbox….this concludes Morning Musings with an English Major (who apparently is a closet Philosopher-who knew?:-). Bon Mercredi, mes amis!
i wish my advisor would correct my whole thesis faster so I could adjust everything and then finish it
hey so...
do you ever think that people back in the day called William Shakespeare Billy Shakes?
gloomy days and online classes