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When Richard met “A” from Pretty Little Liars.

When Richard met “A” from Pretty Little Liars. Richard and “A” are both stalkers but in VERY different ways but at the same time they are two TOTALLY different people. Richard stalks Julie, his ex-girlfriend, Julie always appearing wherever she is. Meanwhile, “A” is an unknown stalker. It’s kind of weird how these characters act. They are not very good people and I don’t like them. Both characters are obviously villains. A is a villain because he is blackmailing the girls and watching always knowing what they are up to and texts that are saying stuff like “I know your secrets” and it’s really weird and very creepy and they don’t know who this “A” person is. Julie dumped her ex -boyfriend, Richard and he is basically stalking her 24/7 and he has a bad reputation in the town and its Julie’s job to find out what that may be. She is now currently dating her late husband, Jim his best friend, Mike and Richard is determined to ruin their relationship. Obviously, they are very similar and different and both have similar themes. If Richard and A ever bet the world would have ended and we wouldn’t know what to do. Plus, the world would just be very terrible and everyone would turn evil and peace would be nonexistent.

Embellishing?

A book that is a memoir definitely be one hundred percent true. If it isn’t true than you don’t know if you can trust the author or not. I am reading The Glass Castle and after learning about this I am wondering if all of these terrible things are true or if she is embellishing . No, half-way truths are NOT okay! You have to think sometimes do you want to tell a true story or a good one? Yes, a good story may be more interesting but you never know, the truth may be interesting to someone else. What one person hates, someone else loves. This is the same concept. What someone who lived this experienced it thinks their life is boring to someone else it could be glamorous. Frey and Mortenson shouldn’t of bent the truth I would have liked to know the real truth. No, I don’t think we need lines between genres. That’s why we know what we like. We should keep things very simple because everything else is so complex that we shouldn’t need to make choosing a book so complex. Yes, we do need to label thing non- fiction or fiction because we want to know if we are reading a true story or not.

What should schools do?

• If Gallagher’s argument is true in Readicide, should we continue to teach literary fiction so exclusively? • Should we add more genre fiction to the curriculum? o No, we should NOT continue to teach literary fiction so exclusively. We shouldn’t do this because all the books we read tend to do the same thing for us and most people don’t actually read the book. If we read more genre fiction, then people would do better and actually enjoy the book and maybe read more often. • Are you good with swapping out Of Mice and Men for Twilight, for example? o Yes, I am okay with swapping Twilight for Of Mice and Men. The book I absolutely HATED it. Twilight was okay not my favorite but the concept is much better. I would like reading it despite the length. • What should a 21st century English class reading list look like? o A 21st century English class should look like: if the class is on trimesters, you would read two books : one genre and one literary fiction. If the class is on semesters you would read three books: two literary and one genre. If the class is on quarters: you would read one book: it would be literary and it also should have a independent reading book as well. • Is literary fiction relevant to our current culture? o No, literary fiction isn’t relevant to our culture. We aren’t able to relate to it and forced to say” “I don’t understand this book.”, and therefore it concludes that we “hate” the book. • Is it preparing students for the job market you are about to enter? o No, I have no idea what I want to do in my life. If I want to be an English teacher this would help me, obviously. If I was a nurse this wouldn’t help you don’t necessarily have to know how to read to be a burse. Those are some possibilities. • Why should we want kids to read books anyway? We should want kids to read so that they get away from the TV. TV is really bad for you and they should not want to do that as much. Books do the same thing but is better for you. Look at the quotes below from authors and writers. Use them to help you make your case, whether you agree with them and they support you or you disagree with them and want to explain why they’re wrong.