I wasn't "bitching." I am so sorry we don't have the same taste in reading material. Two comments do not equate to "whining so much about it," especially since it was my daughter (not a boy) who was assigned the book in school in 1986, and I made no objection to it being assigned, then or now. My children always had books; their own, and whatever they borrowed from the pubic library and the school libraries. YMMV
I have not read the book but have seen the movie. I can understand how the book would continue to resonate with kids today. Not much has changed. I graduated high school in 1969 from a rural community. As a kid growing up on a farm, there was a definite division between the town kids & the farm kids. My parents would remind us that without the farmers the town kids parents would be out of work because every business in our town of 1200 was supported by the farmers.
Yeah, I read ahead and got to the point where they killed the fat kid and noped out on the rest of it which saved a lot of my time. Dumb, boring and ugly
I wasn't "bitching." I am so sorry we don't have the same taste in reading material. Two comments do not equate to "whining so much about it," especially since it was my daughter (not a boy) who was assigned the book in school in 1986, and I made no objection to it being assigned, then or now. My children always had books; their own, and whatever they borrowed from the pubic library and the school libraries. YMMV
I have not read the book but have seen the movie. I can understand how the book would continue to resonate with kids today. Not much has changed. I graduated high school in 1969 from a rural community. As a kid growing up on a farm, there was a definite division between the town kids & the farm kids. My parents would remind us that without the farmers the town kids parents would be out of work because every business in our town of 1200 was supported by the farmers.
I think I just threw up a little bit (where's the fool hat?)
I was a girl when I read it and I liked it.
The ignorance behind banning books is stunning! This is America? Your society is definitely failing.
Okay.
Never encountered that being on my grandparent's farm.
That's up there with calling black people "articulate."
I think the church burned down because Ponyboy and Johnny left their matches and maybe their ciggies there while Dally took them out to eat.
left them where unsupervised orphans could find them.
YES, exactly.
Well, kids from a church group, anyway.
Yeah, I read ahead and got to the point where they killed the fat kid and noped out on the rest of it which saved a lot of my time. Dumb, boring and ugly
Did they also ban and remove the Turner Diaries?
For God's sakes, don't mention the Clock Tower!!!
Oh, I know.