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[–] arrakark@10291998.xyz 42 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The book on the table has the telltale Cliff Notes branding imagery. Cliff Notes is a company that was real big in the 90s and 00s (not sure how big these days) for making short summaries of famous novels, including plot points and themes. Everything you would need to write a competent essay on the book. They're notorious for allowing high school kids to get through literature classes without actually doing the reading work.

[–] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The yellow book with black stripes. It's a summary of a novel with a breakdown of the plot points and the themes.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

In Germany we call that Königserläuterung

[–] Landslide7648@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’ve never heard that before in my life

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

Maybe it's out of fashion but when I went to school, this was the goto. I never had one because I wasn't even ambitious enough to read that small booklet.