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...this suggests a useful approach for voters trying to see through the fog of war and decide whom to believe: close reading. Once students have internalized the vocabulary of literary analysis, a good teacher has them practicing careful reading of a few lines, in order to find what’s in them and what’s really between them. It’s a life skill as well as a literary one, since everywhere a lot hangs on a word. When the White House says something untrue—for example, the bogus threat to Air Force...
Hoge, a native of Colorado, was working as a teacher in the junvenile detention center when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed their classmates and teachers at Columbine High School in his home state. He was immediately interested in the media attention the killers received, and how the town of Littleton unraveled. He began writing soon afterwards, and his earnestness as he describes the writing process and Leland’s character reveals a true sense of advocacy for kids who are robbed of their humanity from the public...
...most obvious stand-in for Hoge himself in Leland seems to be Pearl (Don Cheadle), a juvenile prison teacher who befriends the incarcerated Leland. When an interviewer asks which character Hoge related to most, the nearby Malone cracks a smile...
Boys today are force-fed these categorical imperatives of manhood in the schoolyard, the backyard and from the greatest teacher of all: the mass media. Boys playing Halo, a popular game for the X-Box game console, for instance—where the objective is to shoot everything in sight—learn that manhood is about power and domination. Television reinforces the lesson, often advertising a violent brand of masculinity. TV shows celebrate hyper-violent male icons like wrestlers, football players and action-heroes, a.k.a. professional killers. Meanwhile, men who don’t put on what anti-violence...
...Teen Spirit” and “Polly,” and I soon owned every Nirvana album. Now, between the poster of 5-year-old Kurt on my door in Quincy, the antique Fender Mustang (my first guitar, and the one famously endorsed by Cobain) my guitar teacher found for me in a used guitar shop in Greenwich Village, and my outdated, less than tidy fashion sense, I wonder whether my refusal to consider any contemporary pop musician his equal is just a premature case of longing for the good old days, like a parent complaining about...