Yeah yeah,

I know

it's just a hoop to jump through

and no one likes a complainer




....but that never stopped me before

...and really...
isn't it just another complicated game people play to seem smart when it's a totally useless skill except at dinner parties and if you teach it?

Or if you're a fiction writer?

And honestly, not to crush any dreams, but how many of those are there in the world?

And so it goes like this:
I'll *pretend* that I'm thinking this reeeally interesting (implausible) interpretation about this short story and then craft a paper (leaving out all the parts that contradict or don't fit) ...AS IF anyone will ever know WHAT the author REALLY meant because... he never said what the central idea or theme was himself! Maybe it doesn't even have one! Maybe it has ten! At any rate we won't discuss what significance the ideas have on our lives or etc just this make believe, unprovable, symbolism.

If life can't be summed up into a nice tidy little plot line why are we trying to do this with stories?
Why simplify thing?

haha,...I'm so flustered I'm babbling.

I'd much rather learn grammar any day of the week...at least I'll be using that once the class is over.

Now I can't even escape into a good book anymore without wondering about plot and theme. Yuck. It's like learning where hot dogs come from.

What a waste of energy.

Etc.


:P

Thanks for listening to me whine.