• BenVimes@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    The Stone Angel.

    It’s a miserable story about a dying old woman regretting all her life choices. It’s also required reading in Canadian high schools because the author is Canadian.

    And then, on top of all that, my teacher absolutely insisted that its only major theme was “hope” and docked marks for having any other interpretation.

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      Hagar was an OG, she would have argued with your teacher in class. The only major theme is ‘I do what I want’.