I read this book some ten years ago or so for my middle school class. I remembered reading it, but the ending was vague up until a certain point when it all came crashing into me. Reading it now, all these years later, for the second time... was more pure and painful a torture than the one I called ...
I absolutely despised this book when I read it in high school, and when I read it again as an adult, I loved it. Funny how that works sometimes, huh?The friendship/love story between the two main characters is one of the most believable ones I've ever read.
>"And the rays of the sun were shooting past them, millions of rays shooting past them like--like golden machine-gun fire."Gene is a boy from the South attending an exclusive New Hampshire prep school. He becomes best friends with a New Englander from Boston named Phineas. Let me amend that, Phineas...
Discarded from Garth Hill English DeptDedication: To Bea and Jim with gratitude and loveOpening: I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before.Not so much!
Normally, I'd jump to the juvenile statement that interpreting good books in class ruins them. Interestingly enough, though, interpreting this book in my class did just the opposite.At first, I had read through the prose and the imagery, eager to finish up the reading assignment every night and taki...
I read this book years ago in high school because it was my mother's favorite book, and we both decided to read it again together, and while I really enjoyed it I rememebr my mother saying reading it as an adult was a totally different experience than reading it when she was my age. Then a couple of...
I have an irrational hatred for this book. It was the only novel I was forced to read in school that I actually disliked - I was one of those kids that enjoyed any book that found its way into my hands. I remember next to nothing about the plot, so I'll have to re-read it one of these days with a mo...
As far as coming-of-age novels goes, this has to be one of most devastating to read. It is not as all heart-warming or nostalgic, yet it rings truer than most. The setting is in a boys' school in the 40s as World War II rages across the ocean and it uses this setting as an allegory for the loss of i...
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