Alright, don’t get me wrong, I LOVE classic literature. But mostly I mean Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Austen, you know interesting and not completely confusing books. But Plato? Really? Don’t get me wrong, I like the other books we have to read and I REALLY like the teacher. She’s super nice and fun but philosophy and underlying meanings aren’t really my strong points…. I had to read Apology by Plato for my English class over the summer. It’s a book all about Socrates’ trial. It’s a relatively interesting topic but the understanding of it? It’s worse than Shakespeare. A LOT worse than Shakespeare. I had to read every sentence at least 3 times over only to understand what he was saying! And now, lucky me, I get to write an essay AAAALLL about it! I have to write whether the trial was fair or whether the charges were illegitimate. Well based on the fact that Socrates was a righteous man and had no bad intentions yet was sentenced to death, what do you think? Actually that may make a very good thesis statement…. Hmmm…… Well, one sentence down, three more pages to go. Ciao!
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