Readicide is a deadly problem within our schools in current day. The reading experience has been dumbed down into an analytical process where answers are right or wrong, where symbolism doesn't have individual meaning based on the reader, where anecdotal experience has no weight. The current education system has it all wrong, it would have you think that reading is always a logical process and never truly emotional, that everything is black and white and grey observations hold no merit.
The largest problem if you ask me is the poor choice of books and the overteaching of such books.To make a personal comment, in the case of my English class this year we were assigned to read Their Eyes Were Watching God. Throughout attempting to read this vocally out of touch book our teacher would routinely spoil plot elements in order to give an explanation for them and 'assist' us in our analyzing. Analyzation does not begin with someone analyzing a text for you, and for that matter factual analyzation does not help a reader in any way gather together an experience from a reading.
Things like solely picking out 'artistically' written books, and overteaching such books is killing the interest of current students in reading.
Monday, January 27, 2014
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Movie Adaptation #5
Any time one might want to create a movie from a book it will be a difficult process. Movie adaptations often leave someone who has read the book related to the film feeling fairly dissatisfied, why might this be?
The simple answer is that in many cases there isn't enough time within a movie to cover all of the contents within a book. Longer books can often span the time of a year or more and most films simply can't replicate something like that within a few hours.
What can be done to combat this? Well in many cases, making an unusually long movie can be the remedy, in other cases a series of films would be in good taste. For some books however neither of the above are able to cover the subject matter and simply fall short.
In my opinion most books are not meant to be movies, that is exactly why they are books.
The simple answer is that in many cases there isn't enough time within a movie to cover all of the contents within a book. Longer books can often span the time of a year or more and most films simply can't replicate something like that within a few hours.
What can be done to combat this? Well in many cases, making an unusually long movie can be the remedy, in other cases a series of films would be in good taste. For some books however neither of the above are able to cover the subject matter and simply fall short.
In my opinion most books are not meant to be movies, that is exactly why they are books.
Reexperience Room
Are you longing for a closer connection to the book?
Do you fancy your self a minimalist?
Look no further ladies and gentlemen, the Room Survival Challenge is here.
Within the challenge you must live within a replica of the room mentioned within the story for 1 month. The rules, conditions, and guidlines will be as stated below.
1. No contact with the outside world other than your weekly Sunday visit from "Old Nick"
2. You may not bring anything from the outside world with you to room other than the clothes you wear on your back. (One regular outfit.)
3. You may not leave until your time is up.
Please contact your local 'Room' Experience provider to set up a date.
Good luck!
I came up with this idea for a fan experience as I thought about what it would be like to be stuck in 'Room'. I think this experience could satiate the curiosity within many readers to understand what it might feel like to experience being in a room with no human contact.
Of course this idea would not exactly represent the story but you couldn't very well have anyone repeat the contents exactly. This is about as close as one could get to the story without experiencing something truly horrific.
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