<p>So... about there being no poetry. I was happy, yet at the same time, my teacher made our class learn a ridiculous amount of poetry terms, all for nothing. :(</p>
<p>I put something about Lutie being a stranger to the city or alienated or something and how menacing the wind was. I hope its alright, though in hindisght an adversarial relationship would have been better.</p>
<p>That was probably the hardest one, I thought. I wrote how the wind was a menace, too, and how it reflected her unfortunate life in the city.</p>
<p>Idk, my friends put that she was uncomfortable with the city, and then got used to it by the end. I just put that she the wind made her uncomfortable throughout…</p>
<p>A lot of people I know put something about her being sensual with the wind, which is true, but I don’t think sensual in a good way…</p>
<p>What was the significance in the sign? Why go in for 3 rooms but not 2?</p>
<p>Maybe i read to much into that part?</p>
<p>“So… about there being no poetry. I was happy, yet at the same time, my teacher made our class learn a ridiculous amount of poetry terms, all for nothing.”</p>
<p>Wasn’t the first prompt technically a poem? It was a soliloquy from Shakespeare’s King Henry VIII.</p>
<p>Edit: Nvm it was a speech. Good thing I didnt call it a poem in my essay =P</p>
<p>I used the sign as imagery, another object that had a negative connotation.</p>
<p>I guess you could count it as a poem, but really, it was from a Shakespeare play, different than the free responses in the past.</p>
<p>idk i had a little different interpretation of the wind one
i said that the wind represented the force of nature and that it
was encouraging people to abandon the routine of their daily, materialistic lives
by forcing them to witness the power of nature</p>
<p>u know cuz it tried seperating the city dwellers from their clothes(superficial, materialistic items) and it blew around theatre announcements and newspapers(objects linked to worldly afffairs)
its seemed to be exploring Lutie and discouraging her to seek a permanent residence in the city by not allowing her to see what was on the sign(wind blew it away, rain and snow had faded the sign out - all are elements of nature) and making her perhaps resort to a more natural location.</p>
<p>the first one i also discussed in terms of a poem-noting rhyme scheme and what not
but i felt that the last essay was the hardest, probably because i didnt have much time to write it
i tried using the great gatsby and the green light as an example but i didnt provide a lot of examples </p>
<p>do u guys think a well written essay(talked about themes pretty well) but with only a couple specific examples from the book will be enough for a 5/9 grade?</p>
<p>I don’t think I did very well on the Shakespearean question; like I dissected everything I possibly could but didn’t back it up very well.<br>
I put that the wind’s “behavior” in twisting and turning things away from people paralleled the struggle Lutie had with life in the city. I didn’t go into the sign too much…
And I LOVED The Glass Menagerie so I went all-out on that. Let’s hope the AP readers like it too!</p>
<p>OMG my symbolism one sucked. I used Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck. I was going to use Gatsby, but I haven’t finished it yet in my regular lit class so I picked something stupid. :(</p>
<p>“Each time she thought she had the sign in focus, the wind pushed it away from her so that she wasn’t certain whether it said three rooms or two rooms. If it was three, why, she would go in and ask to see it, but if it said two—why, there wasn’t any point. Even with the wind twisting the sign away from her, she could see that it had been there for a long time because its original coat of white paint was streaked with rust where years of rain and snow had finally eaten the paint off down to the metal and the metal had slowly rusted, making a dark red stain like blood.
It was three rooms. The wind held it still for an instant in front of her and then swooped it away until it was standing at an impossible angle on the rod that suspended it from the building. She read it rapidly. Three rooms, steam heat, parquet floors, respectable tenants. Reasonable.”</p>
<p>This part completely threw me off. Did everone else ignore the whole 3 rooms vs 2 deal?</p>
<p>I talked about how the wind symbolized the city’s foreboding and sinister nature. I also mentioned that the sign was another object that had been corrupted or destroyed by the city’s adversarial elements.</p>
<p>Oh, and I said that the ending lent an optimistic gleam of hope to the excerpt. I also mentioned that perhaps Lutie and the city had come to a truce with one another.</p>
<p>I ignored the two room-three room deal. Well, at least we all agree that the wind was the antagonist, lol.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t think the two or three room deal pertained much to the piece. It was just an added detail.</p>
<p>For the question 1 (cardinal one), i talked about diction and tone (no brainers), then i talkeda bout how he had a high ego “im so great but they fired me”, but then later on, he becomes depressed and **** lol</p>
<p>for the prose, i talkeda bout how women faced hardships throughout hsitory, the corruption in the urban cities (but it displays a friendly and entertaining appearance “theaters and that **** on the papers”), how the wind was a dark force that wanted the civilians to ■■■■ and also make it obvisou to them that it was a dark force (representing corruption, etc)
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<p>also for the sign how it kept going out of vision, i thought it meant that women face hardships and each time they come close to equality, it goes out of their way</p>
<p>idk if thats right but thats how i analyzed it</p>
<p>^ (altindie) Yeah, I really thought it was just because she was looking for a place to move in and she wanted a place with 3 rooms…</p>
<p>Wow, yoyo687, that’s a really deep interpretation. It sounds like you did a great job coming up with a unique, profound position and then supported it with lots of details. I’ll bet you got at least an 8, maybe a 9 on that one.</p>
<p>For the first one I talked about the metaphor comparing Wolsey to the blossoming tree and the simile comparing him to boys who venture out over deep waters (or something like that, I forget) for figurative language. Then I talked about diction/tone (words like “vain” and “poor,” etc.), and then for allusion, I talked about the biblical reference to Lucifer’s fall from God’s favor, and how, just as Satan’s descent into sin was permanent, Wolsey felt no hope that his situation would ever improve.</p>
<p>For the second one I think I did pretty much what everyone else did, which can’t be interesting for the AP grader. 
I talked about imagery first, giving examples of appeals to sight (the papers and chicken bones being whipped around the streets) to sound (the window shades flapping against the walls) and to touch (the wind stinging the skin of the city’s residents) the show that the imagery depicted the city as an uninviting place. Then I talked about how the wind was personified as a person who was deliberately antogonizing people (making Lutie feel invaded, trying to rip people’s hats and jackets off) to make them feel unwelcome in the city. My final body paragraph was my weakest; I talked about how Petry used “selection of detail” to depict the city as a grimy, unfriendly place, again referring to the examples of the wind whipping dirt and bones and papers along the streets, and also the figurative language of the sign that looked bloody. (Beyond this, I ignored the sign with its 2/3 rooms thing. I hope that that’s okay.)</p>
<p>For the third essay, I talked about the significance of clocks in The Sound and the Fury.</p>
<p>is my analysis okay though??</p>
<p>Q1: Tone and metaphor/figurative language. I thought it was a pretty simple question, and easy to write about. Personally, I was thrilled that it was Shakespeare instead of a poem.</p>
<p>Q2: Personification and imagery. I also said that the wind was a menace. I thought the way it touched the girl was creepy, did anyone else? So I wrote about that, and about how it’s kind of a bully, throwing its weight around just because it can, and how it’s used to represent the city as a whole, which consumes the souls of its inhabitants. I said the sign reminded me of an animal carcass of some kind, and foreshadowed Lutie’s own demise. I didn’t really know what to make of the 2 vs 3 room thing; not sure that it was important, unless you really had something good to say about it.</p>
<p>Q3: I did the painting of the churches and the song that goes along with it in 1984. About how it symbolizes the ubiquity of Big Brother and the total corruption of everything innocent by the Party. Most of my class did Heart of Darkness, since we just wrote an essay about symbolism in that, but my thesis had to be explained just right to make any sense and I didn’t have nearly enough time to do it. A few people did The Scarlet Letter, which I remember almost nothing about, but it definitely fits the prompt.</p>