one benefit of English lit classes

[veronica_rich]

Watching "The Wizard of Oz" on cable was kind of sad as I realized everybody I watched this with in the 1970s when it was on network TV once a year (no VCR! no on-demand or satellite!) is now dead - Mom, Grandpa and Grandma.

But I'm comforted by the fact that with my Sooper English Lit Major Powers(TM), I can now analyze what a cocked-up story this really is. I mean, sending a teenage girl to kill your rival? Trying to kill a teenage girl for clearly being in the wrong place at the wrong time, instead of the bitch witch ordering her about? (At worst, East's death was a lower-degree manslaughter, not murder.) And don't get me started on the Cheney-like "wizard."

But fuck me if I don't still want those shoes.

Comments

[zagzagael.livejournal.com]

We also used to watch it once a year and it was a BIG deal! I think you might have the kernel of an essay here...

Uh, children's lit! Think about how screwed up Harry Potter's world is....stuff a kid under the stairs all his life, send him to a school where he's manipulated by adults, and he's expected to murder the most evil wizard n wizardom...