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There's still hope for our youth
Oct. 4th, 2003 06:27 pmHad one of my students coming over in the morning. We've watched the extended edition of FOTR together. She said, she regrets having seen the movie before reading the books, because now she'll have the movie images in her head forever, no matter how hard she tries to make her own picture of the characters and the places.
She's a nice and intelligent 13-years-old. She's reading ROTK now and waits with watching the other movies until she's read the books. Two other kids of my class are through the whole trilogy already, and another girl has just decided to read it, before seeing the movies (if ever). She's only seen sniplets so far and says the movies are too violent for her taste. But the others told her that the books aren't mainly about battle and gutting people onscreen, so she decided to give them a try.
Of course, many other kids (especially the boys) are enthusiastic about the battles and the monsters and stuff. But it's comforting to know that there are at least *some* who aren't. Who are willing to read and use their own imagination.
She's a nice and intelligent 13-years-old. She's reading ROTK now and waits with watching the other movies until she's read the books. Two other kids of my class are through the whole trilogy already, and another girl has just decided to read it, before seeing the movies (if ever). She's only seen sniplets so far and says the movies are too violent for her taste. But the others told her that the books aren't mainly about battle and gutting people onscreen, so she decided to give them a try.
Of course, many other kids (especially the boys) are enthusiastic about the battles and the monsters and stuff. But it's comforting to know that there are at least *some* who aren't. Who are willing to read and use their own imagination.
