It implies he ' s not fully committed . Doesn ' t put his heart and soul into the game of football because he wants to have a laugh as well . Roy Keane wasn ' t worried about having a laugh and look what he achieved . Plenty of time to joke around when your career is over . <| sep |> I think that the Hobbit is a good choice there ' s a lot to learn from that in terms of establishing the fantasy genre , religious symbolism , religious and mythological allegory , and you can connect it to the history of European folklore that Tolkien was kind of organizing and translating the cannon for . I am a little uneasy about Harry Potter being taught I enjoyed it when I read it as a kid , and I do think there ' s some literary value to it in terms of children ' s literature but I don ' t think the first one is particularly complex and I don ' t see how you could teach later books as standalone novels . There ' s more to read into in later books as they become more about the wizarding war and there are elements of state corruption , some ideas about death , etc , but I can ' t see how you can take the first one beyond a loose Heroes Journey and a vague postWWII allegory . edit I think these would be more useful lower down the school , sort of 11 13 range , at GCSE I really felt I needed challenging by some of the books . I read a lot of Sherlock Holmes for my GCSEs and I really didn ' t find that much to analyze . Lord of The Flies however had lots of layers to it and you could really dig in , so I ' m definitely not making a case for oldgood newerbad .