Flowers for Algernon

[curtins]

I have to read Flowers for Algernon for summer reading. I'm pretty much disgusted at the amount of graphic sexual carp thats in it. How does one read through something like this without comprimising one's purity?

[socalscout]

[quote name='curtins' post='1036840' date='Aug 3 2006, 07:22 AM']
I have to read Flowers for Algernon for summer reading. I'm pretty much disgusted at the amount of graphic sexual carp thats in it. How does one read through something like this without comprimising one's purity?
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I had to read "Brave new World" in a Catholic Highschool!

[Seven77]

its pornograpic. i didnt complete the reading assignment for 7th or 8th grade English. i was recovering from a surgery and had a tutor bringing in assignnments from school---so i was able to get away from it. still i did read parts and wish i hadn't...demonic seeds.

dont read it. tell your teacher it compromises your morals and beliefs.

[curtins]

and I go to a Catholic High School

doesn't help when your scrupulous too.


I guess what I read I read but if I come upon anything that gets too racy I'll just skip over it and maybe go over the spark notes later.

Also I tried putting music on to kinda distract me from thinking about it too much.

ugh

[Groo the Wanderer]

I feel for ya. Push through, and do the assignment. Other than the sexual tripe, it is a pretty good story and rather poignant.

Just remember that Christ did not avoid the sinners - he embraced them and placed himself in the midst of them...

I would recommend prayer and maybe a devotional before and after reading to purge the mind. Also, don't dwell on the bad parts - thenk of them as commercials and let them leave your thoughts as soon as they enter.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

If it causes you to sin, throw it out. :

Seriously, tell your teacher no. If s/he doesn't like it, get your principal to talk with you and your parents.

[homeschoolmom]

How about asking your teacher for something else.... and explain why.

[curtins]

Heres a novel Idea (no pun intended) Put some sort of rating system on books. They do it for video games (and movies) and they give people enough carp about buying halo just cause theres blood and violence in it but then they shove this carp down our throats which actually is BAD for you- its basically porn in the form of words.

I SUPPORT A RATING SYSTEM FOR BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah incase you coulnt tell im pissed off

I could be reading some thing GOOD and actually USEFUL!!!!!!!!! like Catholic matters, or some kind of GOOD book that actually HELPS YOU not this CRAPPP
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Edited August 3, 2006 by curtins

[thessalonian]

Refuse in a charitable way and go to the priest who is responsible for the school as well as the principal. I read the book when I was young. I think it was an assignment in my secular school. Looking back I should not have. It did have effects.

Edited August 3, 2006 by thessalonian

[Seven77]

i agree with thess, hsmom, raphael.

[curtins]

seriously though

why do they rate video games and movies but not books???

[prose]

I never read the book, but the play I saw made me cry. I thought it was touching.

Funny, I don't remember any sexual content.

[djc08]

Isn't it about a guy who is mentally retarded but they have this new stuff to make him smarter and he falls in love with his teacher or something? I remember reading an excerpt I thought was called "Flowers for Algernon" when I was in 8th grade?

[thessalonian]

[quote name='prose' post='1036924' date='Aug 3 2006, 12:12 PM']
I never read the book, but the play I saw made me cry. I thought it was touching.

Funny, I don't remember any sexual content.
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There definitely is in the book. As you say it's a good story without it. It should not be read by young people in the midst of getting used to hormones. We of course are to redeem our sexuality in life. But this comes over time. Reading such books at a young age does not help in this process.

[thessalonian]

I will say one thing about your title: "the book is gross". Have to be a little careful here. Human Sexuality is not gross. It is quite beautiful and is a fortshadowing of our relationship with God in heaven. Our sexual desires however are disordered and so we distort it to something that may be gross. i.e. premarital/extramarital sex that is pleasure seeking rather than giving. That is what is gross. That is sin. Christ came to redeem that view of sexuality and restore it to it's beauty in the garden.