Professor Alexis Pereira, who is based in New York, took to Twitter to post an image that revealed details of a paper written by a student, which had nothing to do with the assigned subject.
“Teaching my first English course this semester has been rewarding but I don’t know what to do with this student,” he tweeted.
The essay, which has been awarded a D, comes with a comment written by Prof Pereira in red declaring the student’s efforts were way off the mark.
“This was supposed to be about Tom from The Great Gatsby! The book we are reading!”
The essay submitted by the student was titled: “What Exactly Does Tom Want with Jerry?” – a paper about cartoon characters, rather than those from the assigned reading.
“In the Looney Tunes cinematic universe, many of the cartoon nemeses have a very clear goal,” the essay begins.
“Wild (sic) Coyote wants to eat the Roadrunner. Pepe le Pue (sic) wants to impregnate Penelope. Elmer Fudd wants to shoot Bugs (and who doesn’t?).
“But it is unclear what if anything Tom wants to do with Jerry.”
The essay continues: “Submitted for the approval of English 101, I propose that Tom actually has no interest in doing anything with Jerry, but instead fulfilling his class role as ‘house cat’.
“Heathcliff, Top Cat, Garfield, Sylvester – these are all famous cats, most of them cartoon.”
The tweet of the essay along with the teacher’s hilarious comments has gone viral since being shared and at the time of writing has over 49,400 retweets and more than 301,600 likes..”
