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[quote=Anonymous]Look, everyone should read Lord of the Flies at some point, so you can get the reference when people say, "It's like Lord of the Flies in there!"  But as a PP said, it's a book about white boys.  I like to think that we, today, strive to avoid making any one viewpoint the "normal," but it's hard to avoid when you also want kids reading the classics, because they mostly come from a period in time when the white male perspective was the one that mattered.  This means teachers and parents and students have to work hard to ensure that yes, you read the classics, but you also combine that with books from different perspectives!  Once you've read LOTF, then a separate peace, then grapes of wrath, then all the king's men, then the catcher in the rye, great gatsby, heart of darkness...MacBeth, Catch 22, etc. etc. etc., you've got a lot of white man perspective, and not much else.  you only have so much time in school (and in life), so I get why the OP is annoyed.  Sure, you can learn from re-reading, but two years is not that much distance, and if they must re-read books, let it be the color purple.[/quote]

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