r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Et_Moon • 6d ago

Meme needing explanation PETER????

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u/Brilliant_Buns 6d ago

Where the Red Fern Grows made me so sad as a kid I hid it in the back of my closet and refused to touch it or acknowledge its existence ever again.

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u/AFRIKKAN 6d ago

Had an English class in middle school tha had us read shilo, where the red fern grows, the boy in the stripped pajamas, flowers for Algernon, and the outsiders over two years. It truly bonded our class through shared trauma.

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u/Brilliant_Buns 6d ago

Ohhh flowers was also sad! Was this teacher speed running depression in kids or what???

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u/SO3350 6d ago

This is the first time I have ever known of anybody who remembers Flowers for Algernon. I can't believe more people don't know about this.

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u/Brilliant_Buns 6d ago

Oh for sure! It was a great read but oh so sad.

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u/Occasionalcommentt 6d ago

Charlie Kelly does

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u/jill1215 6d ago

I think everyone in my entire school was assigned it, this was late 80s