 And Ryan Griffiths also teaches English and Humanities at Taylorville High School in Illinois. How do you teach the book? I just wanted to say the idea about nostalgia. I actually really, I've always been very frustrated with Jim Burden as a narrator, actually. But once I hit my 40s, I was at least a little more sympathetic with the nostalgia. I'm not sympathetic with his romanticizing turn, especially the way that he romanticizes Antonia.