Just Read This in School
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Nepfew33 — 19 years ago(November 16, 2006 03:59 PM)
I read this in school aswellexcellent story indeed.
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iggy92 — 19 years ago(November 20, 2006 08:37 PM)
I read this about a month ago for 9th grade LA and it was a very good piece of liturature! The only bad part was my teacher has us write what would happen after Rainsford waked up after sleeping in Zaroff's bed in the end.
I say keep Matt McConahay (worng spelling) and Reese Witherspoon, but why not Ian McKellen as Zaroff?
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karatewolfpunk — 19 years ago(January 10, 2007 03:54 PM)
I read it in 8th grade. Zaroff is a general, and the victim guy was by himself. They were like the only characters in the story.
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39-0-13 — 18 years ago(June 30, 2007 02:07 PM)
Guess I am an old hand at this. Back in the mid to late 50's, in Jesuit schools in the Mid West (I grew up in Kansas City, MO), there was a Freshman Reader ("Prose and Poetry for Enjoyment") that the frosh were told to buy. The short story by Connell was the first story we kids all had to read under the guidance of a Jebbie teacher.
Good Godfrey, the story blew my mind. I recall reading the redacted "Hurricane" and "The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" later on, and a couple of others like "The Gift of the Magi." But the first story by Connell lived in my memory for years. Even now, nearly 50 years later, the story is as thrilling as any Sherlock Holmes story I read before I entered High School.
I don't know what the high school readers are publishing these days. But I think there is a body of short stories that kids even in our day should be exposed to. Like, the story under discussion and those mentioned above, as well as the moving "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" and a tale or two by Poe. Can kids today be all that different from kids in the fifties? -
hanginonacliff — 19 years ago(January 11, 2007 07:59 PM)
we read this in our 9th grade class and have to write a prt 2 about it =(
haha mysn soo lame!
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iscream22 — 19 years ago(February 14, 2007 07:10 AM)
They assigned this with a large number of other short stories to read at university of MD. Feel funny though that all of you read it in 9th grade :). It was an easy read though. Im ordering the movie from Ebay right now, it better be good!
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shandy8 — 18 years ago(September 16, 2007 12:40 PM)
I have taught this story for many years in my high school English classes and rememebered reading it in school when I was a teenager, but I had never seen the movie until today. It is very well done but somewhat different from Connel's famous story.
What I appreciated most about the movie was that it was made by the same group of film makers who created the amazing "King Kong" and it has teh same kind of spirit.
The addition of characters not featured in the story do not ruin the story, and, in fact, I like them.
The themes are all intact and the atmosphere is wonderful. I will show this to my students (even though they will groan when they see that it is in black and white).