Recommendations for 10th graders
As we grow, it is time to start paying attention to
what is called “classic literature”, we have matured and we are ready to
incursionate into deeper waters.
As we are leaving 10th grade ourselves, we wanted to
give you three completely different books to begin reading classics without it
being torture.
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo:
This classic of French literature is one that EVERYONE
needs to read at least once in their life. It speaks about liberty, equality,
to fight against oppression, while narrating in a truly human way the situation
of France post revolution.
“Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry
men”
“Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation
of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Edgar Allan Poe
As 10th graders, we have had a certain amount of
experience with Edgar Allan Poe, we have read stories like The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado and The Mask of the Red Death, and if something can be
said about this stories is that all are unforgettable. Once you read them, they
leave a mark in you that will never fade away. Each one of Poe’s stories messes
with the mind of the readers until the very last page, exposing human nature in
a raw but delightful way.
“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that
human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only
more active - not more happy - nor wiser, than he was 6000 years ago.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
By María
Camila Pinzón and Camila Orozco, Step 10
