Schools and Reading post6

I believe that Gallagher makes a lot of true points in his book, Readicide, that schools should start to consider when teaching literary fiction to their students. Schools do certainly kill the enjoyment of reading by looking far too deep in to phrases said and sending us off on own to fend for ourselves through the heavy layers of the Shakespearian language. A teacher shouldn’t have to stop after one line and say what it means and do that for five million more; students should learn at a younger age to learn and interpret the language of literary fiction. To me we should be taught to enjoy reading and want to continue on in our lives with that want and drive to read more material. I think that schools should continue to teach literary fiction but to an extent.

Literary fiction is a part of society that needs to stick around for a really long time. Some of these stories have been kept for hundreds of years, made in to millions of copies, and taught in many schools. These classic books are starting to put a bore to reading but are very important to read. Teaching these classics can take time with many stops and tests in between paragraphs. We shouldn’t break up the books in to chunks but figure out a way to understand the language and be able to read them more ‘fluently’ and faster without constantly breaking.

I also think that we need to learn these literary fiction classics because we’ve kept them and haven’t gotten rid of them. If we stopped teaching them to the younger generations then they won’t be able to understand references from them that we have used in movies and society. I believe it’s important to keep up reading literary fiction and not let in die.