Sunday, August 2, 2009

Zach's Valedictorian Speech

This kind of reminds me of the time in Mrs McCausland's year 9 English class when we had a poetry assignment in which we were given a theme at random and had to find a poem on that theme and then do a presentation relating that poem to Jane Eyre.

My theme was 'poverty and wealth', and I thought poetry was lame, so I did my speech about Old Mother Hubbard's dog, who was forced through no fault of his own to suffer the injustice of Mother Hubbard's poverty when there was no bone for him left in her cupboard, and how it's just like Jane Eyre, because both of them probably had a fireplace, even if they couldn't always stoke it.

...except Zach's analogy makes a lot more sense.