fear for the future

So today, while I was packing my classroom, I came across this piece of paper where, a couple years ago I wrote down funny sentences from students' essays. Enjoy.

• "He cannot be happy with himself because of the giant nose on his face."
• "For example, i"n the novel [The Great Gatsby] Daisy falls in love with Gatsby because of his money, and shirts."
• "His mind is as closed as the Bat Cave."
• "Nowadays the American Dream is being able to work and have your wife and kids stay home in your million dollar house."
• "Every night [Gatsby] would gaze upon her dock, staring at the green light. This showed Gatsby's hope, like an immigrant would have staring at the green land of America."
• "The only thing keeping these two love birds [Daisy and Gatsby] apart is the fact that Daisy is married with a child."
• "In the 1920's, women started cheating on their husbands while the husbands were out with a slut."
• "All of his hard work bootlegging finally paid off."
• "Drummond didn't doubt the Bible; he just thought that there were some parts that couldn't be true."
• "He ultimately wins the trial despite it was actually the prosecution that took victory.
• "During World War II Golding fought against communism and the evil that comes from it."

None of those sentences were meant to be ironic.

I'm gonna go cry now.