readicide

I do think readicide is a problem at schools today. I think that it is a problem because the schools today are too focused on the test and it takes away from the book.  So I do believe that they are over teaching books. It really ruins books when we have to keep stopping and analyzing it. I don’t think that teachers should just let kids read the book then take a test on it but should group kids together that all read at the same pace. And let them all talk about the book to see what they each took from it. I think most of the books you read in school should be literary fiction because literary fiction is better for teaching kids book smarts like how to write and the proper way to do it and it is a lot easier to teach and test on most of the things taught in English class using literary fiction. But teacher should allow time to read what the students want because usually genre fiction teaches other things that literary fiction cant. Things that make you look at the world different. Sometimes the same book can teach two different readers two different things because it all depends on how you take it and process what the book is saying. So if you try to analyze genre fiction as a class and tell them what the book is trying to say then it will totally ruin the experience.  I do not like the idea of changing mice of men for twighlit and Macbeth for hunger games because those books teach things that are important but like I said earlier we should add new books not swap old ones out. The ones we should add are genre fiction that the students get to choose so that students don’t start to hate reading.    

Some challenges the filmmakers would face would be showing how number four really feels because most of the parts of the book that represent how he feels about the situation he is currently in would translate into a pretty boring scene on the big screen. because most of them are him sitting there and thinking things over in his head and i don't think movie goers want to see someone sit there in silence thinking about things. one thing that the filmmakers must incorporate is when number four meets Sarah and there relationship throughout the story because that relationship really effects how the plot unfolds later in the book. Another thing they would need to keep is part where number four gets the mysterious letters and when the Mongolians show up. The third thing they would need to keep is all the other action scenes because that usually tends to make a good movie.
One thing the filmmakers should probably take out is most of the training that he does everyday. They should put a little of it in the movie to show the viewers what he is doing but only show it once not everyday like they do in the book. Another thing they should take out is when mark and his Friends jump number four and he fends them off because this does not really add to the story in any way except put a little more action in it. the last thing that they should take out is the long road trip number four and Henri make up to Ohio they should just show when they get there and not the hole drive like they do in the book.