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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Les Miserables totally informed my sense of social justice, which is an important part of my life and who I am.

I think I would still be as moved now, though, as I was then.[/quote]

Long before the musical, back in the '70s when Frye Boots were popular the first time around and disco was king, my entire 9th-grade English -- the good girls, the jocks, the brains, the wasted, the theater geeks, the mean girls, the AV guys, the stoner artists -- all of us -- were completely riveted by Les Miserables.  The message I took from it was that refusing to grant forgiveness hurts the hard-hearted more than the transgressor.

My oldest son, a recent college graduate, was riveted by Gatsby in 11th-grade American Literature.  When he told us that he was turning down a job at an investment bank to teach middle school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the US, he mentioned Gatsby.  BTW, he majored in applied math.  Anybody who says the humanities are dead is very much mistaken.

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PP here.  Thanks for posting this.  So interesting that the book was riveting to such diverse groups of students.  I wonder if that would be likely or even possible these days.  Your son sounds awesome![/quote]

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