Originally Posted by
gatsbysghost
I have to laugh at you, why even bother trying to sound tough on an internet forum about literature? If that makes you feel better, then fine.
Not all literature, in every form, is free. First question: Is there no place in Detroit where you may sit down at a computer, and have access to the internet at no personal cost (tax dollars aside?) There is enough excellent literature on this website alone to keep someone up to their ears in great works for many years. Not to mention the several other websites that are just like it. I have never been to a public library in Detroit while I was there, but I refuse to believe that there isn't a book by shakespeare, or any other major author in the joint. Maybe I am wrong, but I would be suprised. Second, if you can't afford to drop ten bones on a book, get a job. I have been working since I was old enough to push a lawnmower. I started buying my own school clothes when I was twelve. I didn't have to, but i did. I moved out the day after I graduated and haven't taken a dime from my parents since. If you want to compare educational systems and poverty rates, step up. I live in Eastern Kentucky. I have a wife and a two year old son. I work 50 hours a week taking care of a doctor's show horses, so basically I shovel ****. I go to a community college full time. I do carpentry and landscaping during the summer, and work on cars in the winter, after I get home from my regular job or class, to buy the things that I want but don't really need. Things like books. Kentucky has the second worst public schools in the nation, behind Mississsippi. I wasn't satisfied with the education I was receiving, so I started teaching myself. The unemployment rate sometimes reaches twenty percent around here. But I hustle, I do what it takes. And I do so without the advantage of hundreds of factories at my back door. Living where I live, you asking me to feel sorry for someone because the can't buy a ten dollar book, or they go to a ****ty school, just doesn't cut it. A point that is lost on many of today's youth, and many of their parents for that matter, is that you have to work for what you want. A convicted felon can get a library card, so why can't the disenfranchised youth of Michigan? I have yet to visit a university library that isn't open to the public. You may not be able to check items out, but you can sit there and read from open till close.
Oh, what sarcasm do you think I am stumbling over. You are probablly right, I am just another dumb hillbilly.