English Literature

First Post - Dardan

Who is the baddest of them all? Its ya boy The Bad aka Dardan. Today was my first day at Paddington academy the most awesome state school ever.  I was greeted amazingly by all of my new classmates and they led me right into their “group.”  I told my new high school mates that I had a new blog, and hopefully me and my boyz will get some new readers. Anyways as I said, it was my first day at Paddington Academy and I wanted to show something I’ve learned in my English lesson. My middle-aged teacher came slowly into the classroom holding a bunch of papers and immediately divided them into many different stacks that obviously contained literary text about several themes, and our only task was to pick one of them and kind of analyze it, so it was natural that I took the texts about British culture and society since it is my first time in England and I wanted to learn more about both the culture and society. So it was actually perfect that we got this task, also both of the authors were British themself so that was a huge bonus for me, and when I started reading the literary text I were totally shocked by the content of the text and I immediately wanted to show you the text and reflect on the one I chose, so no further o do, here it is!

The text that I chose is a novel and it is called for your best, son! And the famous author Elizabeth George wrote it.  She is a famous author all around the world and she as well as given out many books received many rewards for here books. To quickly sum up the text or the novel as it is . The novel takes up a scene or an conflict between the newspaper editor Denis Luxford and his wife Fiona. Denis wants to send his young son Leo to the public school himself went to where he will be living in a boarder school 80 miles away from home, while Fiona on the other hand thinks that Leo will be better off staying at home and continuing at his present school with his old friends. Luxford then takes his son Leo out for lunch to try at convinces him about going away to the school Baverstock.

So this quickly sums up the novel, and as soon as I was done reading it, I started thinking about some similarities and differences between this novel and the British society and culture. This text also reached out to me because i can relate to it, but i wanted to try moving abroad for a year and thats why i came to London.

So the novel brings up many things that I could bind with my area of living here In London, first off all everyone have to wear an school uniform, whatever you are participating a state school or a private school, this is like natural in the text and between the area I live around, but for me who comes from Norway where we don’t have these school uniforms, it is kind of unnatural to not even bring it up since it is so natural for them.  One of the main things that I also see, is that when I walk past an private school, I see like the students attending on these schools looking down at the rest of us from state school, I feel that is horrible and I think they basically do it because it means that they have more money to pay for school, they have more class and so on. This could also be one of the reasons of why Leo in the book didn’t want to move, even though it is not explained that much.  So even though I from the description are totally unlike Leo, we still think the same when it comes to the society and where we are going to live, and that we have to leave old friends behind.

I also notice that children all over England gets send away to border schools, kind of being forced by their parents. The main story of the novel is that Leo the son doesn’t want to leave for border school, but get forced by his dad because he thinks it is for his best. This happens a lot in England. Even though the kids don’t want to leave, they have to because of their parent’s decision and that is the biggest similarities in the novel and all around the British society.

So to sum up shortly the novel it is a great novel that could bind the British culture and society with the text, even though the text is only a few pages long. So this was all for this time, hope you like the novel (for those of you who read it) and enjoy, see you!

 

 

Picture of English school uniforms

 Here is a photo of the different classes before the new seven classes


Sources:
- English book (the text for your best son!)