Passing By Nella Larson

Books have a purpose. Only a few books can be read throughout the school year, and to waste even one book would be a waste of knowledge within students’ brains. A book read this year, Passing, is about a woman struggling to deal with her childhood friend passing away. The novel provides a brief insight into what life was like in the 1930s but focuses more on the struggle of the main character. This has nothing to do with the actual idea of passing, and the set of problems discussed in the novel only involves story-based affairs. Passing, a novel by Nella Larson, doesn’t have the advantages that other books in the 9th-grade curriculum have. Passing is not a literary masterpiece, nor does it teach anything important. Passing is only a book that provides a story, and it does …show more content…
This book, Passing, about a woman struggling to deal with her passing friend nearly a century ago does not apply even a little to high schoolers reading this in the classroom. Critic Brit Bennet stated in the introduction, “There’s a scene in the 1959 melodramatic film Imitation of Life that I have seen dozens of times, but it’s not the one you’re probably imagining.” Passing immediately tells the reader of the target audience and an almost indisputable argument can be made that it is not high schoolers. Almost no high schooler has seen this film, Imitation of Life, from the 1950s, and the book has other examples of non-directly telling the reader that this book is for adults at the youngest, and not for the teens of today. Having a creative richness of language and applying it to the reader are both essential for creating a literary piece suitable to the reader, in this case, high schoolers. Passing expresses neither of these traits and ergo should be removed from the 9th-grade

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