Post 6: Readicide

I believe that readicide is a problem in today's schools. A lot of the teaching today is to prepare a student to pass a test rather than pursue a journey of wanting to read. I think the problem of readicide is the overanalyzing. I know that tests are important but courses are to driven to passing a test. For example, I think that Of Mice and Men was a good book, but we overanalyzed it too much for me to completely enjoy it. Analyzing is like the teacher that teaches you the material needed to be successful. They then tell you to work on your own on a project, but start to teach you something unrelated to your project. They are basically taking time away from you to completely enjoy the process of making your project. I don’t believe that genre fiction is less “worthy” than Literary Fiction because the enjoyment of reading in my opinion is to read something that fascinate you the reader. I think that we should allow students to read more books that fascinate them, no reading list is necessary. If we do, than I think people will rediscover the enjoyment of reading. With all the controversy of Literary versus Genre Fiction, I am on neither side. I like books on both sides of the spectrum. Some people might like Genre better than Literary or vice versa. People should explore what kinds of books they like to read and read them.

                I think that kids should read books because it helps them prepare for their future. Once they start to pursue a career, they would want to find more information about that career. How, through reading. Even though visual aids and videos are becoming more popular, the basis of showing how to demonstrate it will, require the skill of reading.

Post 5: Adopting the Book into a Movie

Right now I'm past the halfway mark in the book I am currently reading, Argo and I'm not really enjoying it that much. But if I had to make a new movie about the book, the three scenes I would still keep are the scene when the U.S. Embassy is being overrun, Tony assembling his team to enter Iran and the escapees of the Embassy seeking a safe haven with the Canadians. In the scene of the Embassy attack, I would show women flooding the grounds of the embassy like what really happened then the militants sneaking through the crowd to enter the buildings. After the workers isolate themselves from the outside, so them giving up and handing themselves into the militants. For the scene of assembling the team, I would show Tony calling for people to come in and him introducing each person of the team. In the scenes for the escapees of the attack, I would show them jump from every little place that they took refuge temporarily, leading up to them entering the Canadian Embassy.
Some scenes that I would cut out are the ones where he is in his art studio at home as well as the exfiltrations that he mentioned that he was a part of leading up to that current setting of the story. They had a scene at the beginning of the book where he is talking about painting in his home art studio and don't see the relevance to the main plot of the story which is helping to free the hostages at the Embassy. With the exfiltrations that Tony was a part of before the hostage crisis are interesting to help with his mission, though I feel that they distract you away from the real plot for the story.
All in all, I think that the book goes into too much detail about the people involved and there are too many side stories that distract you from the general plot. In the my rendition of the movie, I would make the main plot the focus of the movie with an occasional background story leading up to current setting.