Post 6

I believe that readicide is a problem in schools. Schools are creating students who have no clue what the real meaning of reading is. Schools are creating students who are growing up hating and despising the thought of picking up a book and reading it. Students should want to read. They should not feel as if reading is a tedious task. But, it has become a tedious task. Schools are assign books that students feel are “unimportant” or “stupid” because they’re old. Ok, I get that. But, why don’t schools take out things like Romeo and Juliet for a book that has a similar plot line and isn’t as hard to comprehend. Taking out Shakespeare would make English class a little more bearable. Students don’t understand what he’s saying without having to buy a translated version of his plays. Old English isn’t around for a reason, so why keep teaching it?

                 I don’t think schools should add more genre fiction to the curriculum. I think that schools should add more passion to their reading assignments. Yes, most teachers love the book that they’ll be teaching but, their students may not because of the amount of extra work that comes with reading (Study guides, book worksheets, ect.). Extra work isn’t helping this generation of students love reading because no matter what teachers do to show how amazing a book is, the students will hate every moment they have to write down what happened in every page they read. Reading should be a fun, relaxing thing. Not this “you must read chapters 4-8 tonight and be ready for a quiz tomorrow” type of reading. I know as a student, that if I’m being told to do something in that sort of tone, odds are I won’t pick that book up at all. Teachers need to adapt with their students age.

What would be difficult while making The Book Thief into a movie

One of the biggest challenges the filmmaker would encounter would be adding the side notes that we see all throughout the book. The side notes that act as a pause of sorts from the reading add detail, meaning, and depth to the reading. The side notes bring more detail to the story. I as a filmmaker would have trouble deciding how i wanted to go about adding those notes into the movie; they can't be taken out because they carry a lot of information that is important to know to understand the book.

Some scenes that must be kept are she is taking the book from the fire and it begins to burn her chest, the scene where Liesel sees all the books in the mayors house, and the scene where papa is trading his cigs for books for Liesel to read. These scenes are a must to keep because it shows what's going on in that time period and shows the connection papa has for Liesel. Without the scene where she is taking the book out of the fire and putting it into her shirt, the movie viewers and the readers who have read the book and are seeing the movie will be missing a essiental part.

A scene that I would cut would be when papa's son run's away. I would cut this scene because it has no real connection to the rest of the book.