The following essay stresses the importance of teaching literary theory to students in the secondary schools, allowing them to see the world from multiple perspectives.
Date Submitted: 06/29/2004 16:02:46
Category: / Society & Culture / Education
Length: 5 pages (1261 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Education
Length: 5 pages (1261 words)
Wan and gaunt, a cerulean-eyed teenage boy named Michael White shifted restlessly in his seat. His teacher, Mrs. Black, was bloviating about literature again. She was discussing The Necklace, by Guy de Maupassant. Michael wished he had a necklace so he could choke himself with it. Literature made him want to vomit. He could not understand the recondite and mystical prose that certainly did not bear any discernible relation to his life. He felt helpless, …
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…There is no antidote. To preclude the baneful consequences suffered by Michael White and millions of other students, teachers must acquiesce to the foregoing didactic approaches in their entirety. To refuse to do so is to relegate students to abject failure and lifelong misery. It is as simple as Black and White.
Works Cited
Richter, David. Falling into Theory. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000
Lynn, Steven. Texts and Contexts. Addison - Wesley Educational Publishers Inc. 2001
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