Did they forget to read Wilfred Owen?

Not actually about the Nabokov novel. I suspect that there are a large number of people currently trying to twist themselves in knots right now have never read the novel.

He’s also already very concerned about the fact that the letter “c” can sound like a “k” or and “s” and insists that I explain this to him.

Yes

I love these! I do a similar assignment every semester and students are always so creative and inventive.

Very fair. Most of them also did not make their own dinners or wash their own laundry.

But still…

And it’s not just a fear of sticking out or being different (I remember that feeling. I went to middle school). It’s anger that other people/things/ideas don’t conform.

What a way to spend life.