Spark 05: action/video

[realmenknitplushies]

1: action

[Kanji's trying to get homework done. Seriously. In a common room, surrounded by notes, a laptop (old, battered, with insulation taped to it) on the table in front of him...

Right. Let's do this. Let's ... get totally confused by the second question on the page. Literary analysis wouldn't even be his thing if it were in his first language, but English? It's definitely catching him out.]

What does the use of metaphor in this passage... ngh. Dammit.

[He screws up a piece of paper, hurls it across the room, not really looking at the direction it flies in.]

2: video

[Some time after the study attempts...]

Yo. I... kinda hate to say it, but... I'm lookin' for a bit of help, here. [A moment's pause-] Study tips. How to get this stuff to stick in your head 'n all that. I ain't smart, sure. I get that. But...

[He rubs his head, sighs.]

Someone's gotta have somethin', right?

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[realmenknitplushies]

Write a paper about how they shouldn't be writin' papers? I can live with that.

[garganteren]

Yeah!

[He's heartened by this agreement.]

It would only have to be a short paper, if it were about that. Aren't they supposed to teach us to like reading? This isn't doing it.

[realmenknitplushies]

Yeah! [He pauses, though-] I've had teachers tell me 'bout books that'd be interestin', sure. And ... that ain't so bad. But this ain't the way to make me give a damn 'bout them.

[garganteren]

Some of them are okay. Books, I mean. I like them.

But they're supposed to make people feel things and believe things! Not bore people. No wonder so many people don't like to read if this is the way regular schools teach.

[realmenknitplushies]

Tch. Ain't that the truth. Hell, the classes at my last school weren't even as good as the ones here - seemed like the teachers didn't even try to give a damn.

[garganteren]

I liked it better at home.

[Not that he can go back.]

But I can see how it could be worse. There are too many people who don't give a damn.