Fear in Literature, Tuesday 4th period

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

This week, Jon was looking very put together: he had a decent (and more modern) haircut and neatly ironed (and less stuffy) clothing. It was offset just a bit by the bags under his eyes, but he'd done what he could.

The board read: The Hunt: The fear of being chased or hunted; the primal fear of being prey.

"Welcome back, everybody," Jon said. "I hope you've all had time to recover from this weekend's...unpleasantness. This week's reading treats this particular fear very literally. Man is prey, is hunted, and is made to feel explicitly like the other animals he hunts.

"At the start of the story, Rainsford is dismissive of his companion's assertion that the hunt isn't fun for the animals, that they experience fear and pain. By the end of the story, do you think he's learned any differently? He also states he's not a murderer; since General Zaroff no longer intended to kill him, do you think his killing Zaroff makes him one? If so, is he justified in it?"



At the end of class, he wrote the next week's assignment on the board: Robert Silverberg, "To See the Invisible Man"

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Re: Talk to Jon

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Jon nodded to her. "Jo. Please tell me what I can do for you."

Re: Talk to Jon

[onlyajones]

“Um…I…” she shifted a bit, she wasn’t used to this at all, “I just wanted to thank you for yesterday, for listening to me…I …I’ve not really had anyone do that for me before,”

Re: Talk to Jon

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

"Oh." Jon blinked. "It, um. I'm happy to help. I haven't actually taught before, but it seems like part of the job is to be there for my students. Or it should be, anyway. I'm...I'm sorry if you haven't had that before. I will always do my best to listen."

Privately, he thought it might have been part of the reason for her previous behaviour, if nobody had ever bothered to listen to her.

Re: Talk to Jon

[onlyajones]

“It …it did help,” Jo told him, she paused, “oh, this…you’re a very good teacher,” she went a bit pink as she said it but she did mean what she said.

Re: Talk to Jon

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

"Oh! Um, thank you." Jon looked very pleased at that. "I'm glad you think so. Sometimes it's hard to tell. But I am enjoying teaching you all, and passing on whatever I can. Even if it's questionable literature."