Easy A Page #4

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I'm not gonna rap for you.

It's pandering

and it's been done before...

...in every bad movie

you've ever seen. Okay.

Ironically, we were studying

The Scarlet Letter.

Now, isn't that always the way?

The books you read in class always

have some strong connection...

... with whatever angsty

adolescent drama is going on.

Except for Huckleberry Finn.

I don't know any teenage boys...

... who have ever run away

with a big, hulking black guy.

For those who haven't read

The Scarlet Letter...

...or for those who said you did

but didn't, here's all you need to know.

This girl, Hester Prynne,

has an affair with a minister...

... is besmirched and made to wear

a red A for "adulterer."

The town realizes

she was too harshly judged...

... and she's really a good person,

and she dies a saint.

A whole bunch

of other stuff happens too.

If you have a test on it, rent the movie,

but make sure it's the original...

...not the Demi Moore version where

she talks in a fake British accent...

...and takes a lot of baths.

To say that one was freely adapted

is a bit of an understatement, guvnor.

What we have to realize...

...is that Hester lived

in an entirely different time.

A time when the worst crime a woman

could commit was in fact adultery.

Nina.

I think Hester Prynne was...

Excuse my language... . A skank.

A skank? So you don't think

she was a victim at all?

Why should I?

She brought it on herself.

Perhaps you should embroider a red A

on your wardrobe, abominable tramp.

Perhaps you should get a wardrobe,

you abominable twat.

Not my best line,

but it was provocative enough...

... to land me in the principal's office.

Seems as if someone's

on a downward spiral.

Seems as if someone's

practicing the mundane activities...

...she'll be saddled with

the rest of her life.

I hope you at least had the good sense

to use protection.

Why? Your parents didn't.

- You're going to hell.

- Just as long as you won't be there.

I can assure you I won't.

Good.

I don't care who started it.

Just work it out.

Penderghast.

So why am I just meeting you?

Language like this would've

warranted a visit years ago.

This is the first time I've done anything

remotely misbehavioral.

This is foul.

I know. I am so...

I'm really, really sorry.

Sorry you said it

or sorry you got caught?

Sorry I said it, honestly.

And sorry I got caught a little bit too,

but mostly just sorry I said it.

If you use a word like this again in my

school, it'll be your last. Understand?

Yes, sir. Yes.

I mean, this isn't one of

those progressive schools...

...where teachers are called

by their first names...

...and students

are partners in learning...

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