Why Shoot the Teacher cover

Why Shoot the Teacher

by Max Braithwaite

**''Now a Feature Film Starring Bud Cort and Samantha Eggar''*--fr. cvr*** ***Why Shoot the Teacher is a caustic, amiable, and unflinchingly honest account*** of one young man's first collision with reality - an ill paid teaching assignment in an isolated country school during the Great Depression. ***The young man is Max Braithwaite, now one of this country's most successful authors and freelance writers.*** The story he has to tell is riotous, grim, candid and infinitely entertaining. This is a Braithwaite at his vintage best and the humor that earned him the ***1972 Leacock Memorial Medal*** is here in rich abundance. Here, too, is the ***de-humanizing desolation*** of the ***"Dirty Thirties"*** on the ***Saskatchewan Prairies***, the ordeal of youth among a populace bereft of pity and charity, and the human compassion that ***adds warmth and poignancy to Braithwaite's recollections***.

Chappie’s discussion starters

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?