Spoiler Alerts And The Teaching Of Literature
Jejak Panda Selamat Datang Di Website Kesayangam Anda bandarq online My American Literature students and I were reading The Scarlet Letter , and I asked how many of them had read it before or who at least knew the story. Most had, but two students did not. I find it difficult to discuss a novel in discrete sections without reference to the whole work, so I find myself giving away the endings. One year, my students bought me a t-shirt with WARNING: SPOILER ALERT emblazoned across the chest. Since then I’ve tried to be more sensitive about ruining the endings of books. So when two of my current students had no idea who Hester’s husband was or who the father of Pearl was, I said, “OK, I’m going to lead you through the process of figuring out the identities so I can talk about the novel as a whole without spoiling the ending, and you can still feel you figured it out yourselves.†First of all, I said, “Think of the begin...