brainlet high schooler (18) here, my AP Lang class is 200 pages into Huck Finn and I've read literally none of it. I want to read & improve my grade but I find it soul crushing. I also think English is useless
convince me to enjoy the book
also so im part of the board culture and not a shitposting newfag
>'bugs easy on the carrots' is funnier and has infinitely more scale/depth than 'big chungus'
>I've read literally none of it
>I find it soul crushing
I think you should take a year off from high school to get psychiatric help instead.
Knowing a basic (shit) Yea Forums meme doesn't make you any less new, only reading books can do that. If you think English literature is useless and you can't read a children's book, there's really no reason for you to be wasting time lurking on this board.
Huck Finn is good and best read when you're young or new to reading. I read it when I was 11/12 so I don't remember much except for the fact that I liked it, unfortunately.
I read all the books in high school, am at ivy league and am gonna make 6 figures at job. If youre too fucking obstinate to read a book they assign, you're a fucking failure.
It says the N word a lot. I read it whenever I need a good laugh.
there's a chapter where Huck and Jim get into an argument where Jim refuses to believe the French language exists, which was kind of funny.
If you wanted to read and improve your grade then you would have done it already. And if you think English is useless why the fuck are you here? Asking strangers to convince you get your life in shape? You're in high school, education is likely your only responsibility right now and that's too much?
no dude i have a job too which i put way more effort into
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Try this on for size, see if you like
It. It’s never too late to start loving literature. Don’t mind the Italian at the beginning, but if you’re curious, it’s from Dante’s Inferno where a damned soul is speaking to Dante in Hell, and he says:
If I but thought that my response were made
to one perhaps returning to the world,
this tongue of flame would cease to flicker.
But since, up from these depths, no one has yet
returned alive, if what I hear is true,
I answer without fear of being shamed.
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