Kudos Wil, you have just summed up my high school English experiences perfectly. Sadly this followed me into University and I ended up getting kicked out of an English class for asking why a story simply can't be a story, why does it have to be pre this or post that. A good story can simply be. Happily for me, they couldn't knock out my love of reading, which I am hoping to pass onto my 2 year old son. I did go back and reread some of my old high school and university books and while I loved some of them, most of them have been ruined for me. I seem to remember Bill Denbrough in Steven King's It making a similar statement and getting kicked out of his class. Funny that.