Significant post 2: New year, new syllabus

It was already one week after the start of school. We all have many new syllabus which gave us stress but some subjects are quite fun. The subject I feared the most is English Literature.
We had read and been tested on Village By The Sea by Anita Desai during secondary one. I can still remember that it was about a dysfunctional family, with Hari and Lila, the eldest boy and girl in the family, replacing the role of their parents. The father was a drunkard after being jobless and the mother was always ill and needed constant care and nursing. After many thicks and thins, they eventually earned some money and the father had turned over a new leaf as he stopped drinking. On the other hand, the mother had also recovered from her long-term illness and both the parents had taken up their role as parents again.
However, this time our secondary two English Literature is on To Kill A Mockingbird. This book is far more difficult to read compared to Village By The Sea. The words are small and there are about 287 pages altogether, I could only cope with the story with the help of some of the To Kill A Mokingbird summaries in the Internet.
Besides, we also have Emily Of The Emerald Hill. It is a small book and it is quite interesting, but it is only tested in the second-half of the year while To Kill A Mockingbird is tested in the first-half of the year. It is very tough for us. All these three books actually can't compare with the storybooks that I read in free times. They are really much more boring and dull than my personal books, I wonder why they are also award-winning books which I think that it is because of the content that are very much alike as the situation in the past and present society. But for lower secondary students like me, I don't think we can appreciate these books. In fact, we like books that are more in the illogical and funny. But no matter what, I can only comment and we all must study for result's sake anyway.