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i love my schedule this year. I have Martineau again for physics, Tessier again for French, and i finally have Mrs. Meyer for a class.... BIO II yesh! And my sister has Grohman for Chemistry and Worthington for Anatomy...HAHAHA she couldn't have gotten two worse teachers. I feel bad for her, but eh she still has two years to get the good teachers.
Just finished reading a book, One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. It was a really good book, describing one day in this guy's life in a prison camp during Soviet Russia times. It was really controversial because it was written by a Russian; Russian authors usually didn't write about the Soviet tyrannies because it was shameful. But this guy went all out and he was brutally honest. It was just this ordinary working guy, punished unjustly, along with everyone else. It was really sad, but also very inspiring. It's going to be difficult to compare it with the Hours, which is our assignment for English.
Near the end of the book, all the prisoners are having a much-needed dinner after an entire day of working in below zero weather. As he is eating, it seems to Ivan that he is happier eating his watery gruel and rotten bread than he would be even if he managed to escape the camp. The prisoners ate their gruel as if it was honey and milk. Books like that tend to make you feel more grateful for what you have. But also you wonder, how crass would you have to be treated to see rotten gruel as a magnificent feast? It's kind of uncomprehendable that humans would do that to one another. For me, anyway, but then i've always been naive like that.
Anyway, def. a good book to read! and really short too, it IS just one day lol.
Just finished reading a book, One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. It was a really good book, describing one day in this guy's life in a prison camp during Soviet Russia times. It was really controversial because it was written by a Russian; Russian authors usually didn't write about the Soviet tyrannies because it was shameful. But this guy went all out and he was brutally honest. It was just this ordinary working guy, punished unjustly, along with everyone else. It was really sad, but also very inspiring. It's going to be difficult to compare it with the Hours, which is our assignment for English.
Near the end of the book, all the prisoners are having a much-needed dinner after an entire day of working in below zero weather. As he is eating, it seems to Ivan that he is happier eating his watery gruel and rotten bread than he would be even if he managed to escape the camp. The prisoners ate their gruel as if it was honey and milk. Books like that tend to make you feel more grateful for what you have. But also you wonder, how crass would you have to be treated to see rotten gruel as a magnificent feast? It's kind of uncomprehendable that humans would do that to one another. For me, anyway, but then i've always been naive like that.
Anyway, def. a good book to read! and really short too, it IS just one day lol.