Annotation At Its Finest

     The article "Copy of 'The Scarlet Letter' Can't Believe The Notes High Schooler Writing in Margins" was written on January 23, 2013 in theOnion.com. A mass-market paperback edition of The Scarlet Letter confirmed on Wednesday its disbelief that a high school sophomore from Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania, Phoebe Dobson, could write such misguided notes in her The Scarlet Letter book. The high schooler had numerous spelling and grammar mistakes, along with the fact she was able to misinterpret and complicate the book's straightforward plot. Phoebe had written down in the margins that the letter 'A', along with standing for "adulteress", also stood for "America", and that "red=success." She highlighted the entire first page of the book and many unimportant page numbers. Phoebe also not only circled the word 'cottage' every time it came up in the book, she wrote on page thirty seven that the novel might be an allegory for the Civil War, and that the novel's "black man", who represents evil, is a "random black guy who keeps showing up." Along with other mind boggling mistakes, Phoebe referred to the author of the book as Hemingway, and applied nail polish to the about-the-author page that was used to compare slightly different shades of burgundy.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/copy-of-the-scarlet-letter-cant-believe-the-notes,31007/?ref=auto