An overhyped classic you really didn't like
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Re: An overhyped classic you really didn't like
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Ironically, nearly as soon as I finished reading it, I learned Netflix was featuring a series adaptation called The Haunting Bly Manor, which I thought might modernize and redeem the novel. But...nope...the first episode was even more boring than the novel.
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I’ve also taught this story within the past two years, and it’s actually painful. The students come into thinking it’s the greatest, partly because of DiCaprio, but the more they read it, the more their minds change. Once you realize that they “fell in love” and died, in two weeks, it’s kinda crazy and twisted. It’s hard because you see similar behaviors in teens today, and you know it isn’t healthy, and I will say the kids recognize it in the story and they don’t approve, but it doesn’t change their behavior.
Stories like Romeo and Juliet seem sweet if you don’t understand the context, but I think the influence it can have is worse than the story itself, and we should be teaching and showing kids better than that.
Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk.
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