I always hated questions like those, too--they seemed so leading, like you could never possibly make such connections on your own. I suppose kids have to learn how to think critically and my impatience, like a lot of my academic impatience, is unwarranted, but putting Discussion Questions right into the end of the novel makes it seem like the novel was written with this teaching in mind, and that makes you feel like you're not enjoying it, you're being taught.
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Date: 2011-02-27 06:06 am (UTC)I always hated questions like those, too--they seemed so leading, like you could never possibly make such connections on your own. I suppose kids have to learn how to think critically and my impatience, like a lot of my academic impatience, is unwarranted, but putting Discussion Questions right into the end of the novel makes it seem like the novel was written with this teaching in mind, and that makes you feel like you're not enjoying it, you're being taught.