High school literature

>tfw you went to an American public school
>never read anything but Dickens and garbage "American classics" authors like Hemingway, Orwell, Fitzgerald, and Vonnegut
>no Shakespeare beyond Romeo and Juliet, no Plato, no Bible or Dante, no Homer, no Sophocles, no Melville
>tfw you had to teach yourself quality literature and are just now feeling like you're catching up to other readers at age 22

>Orwell
>trash
Wtf.

It was your parents fault user. You can use sites like citydata now to objectively find schools that are white, rich, and motivated to place kids in AP classes.

My small town has a male population that is 7% doctors. That is fucking 10000x the american average. It is also 96% white with the rest being asians and amerindian. My kid is 6 in full day kindergarten that has a goal for 100% literacy by 1st grade.

Also
>hemingway
>orwell
>garbage
>22

Might be time to consider that your estimations of yourself might be based on youth and stupidity.

>"American classics"
>Orwell

Wtf were you expecting. It's high school. Most people I knew struggled to read those kinds of books, it would be much worse if you tried to force them to read even more dense literature. You shouldn't have expected so much from high school, it's mostly day-care, but now that you're out you can do what you want.

>mostly day-care
This, even when you are enrolled in an institution of learning, ultimately you have to become an autodidact using the resources at hand.

Your failings are your own OP

Perhaps its with good reasons that -18 y olds do not have to read those authors

Public education is, by definition, plebeian. Just admit you're either too poor to send your kid to a private school or hire a tutor, or too stupid to home school him yourself.

Also, Hemingway writes nothing but adventure stories filled with self-insertion, self-loathing, and misogynistic woman idealization. Orwell is a fine essayist but is incapable of writing a quality novel due to his poor prose and inability to write with subtlety.

>too stupid to home school him yourself
We were just having another thread about Dunning Kruger
>misogynistic woman idealization
kys

>kys
Okay, so you're 16 and are doing nothing but LRPing in this thread. Good to know.