<p>Yep, we can talk now. :)</p>
<p>I chose Jane Eyre as my book; I was pressed for time & didn't do as well as I should have.</p>
<p>Almost did Slaughterhouse-Five, but didn't, and I'm kicking myself for it now.</p>
<p>For #2 a friend of mine said he put the pine needles falling from the tree was a sign of the son leaving the father. Seemed kinda smart at first but now I'm not sure... My other friend said he wrote about how the father and son actually hated each other... I don't think the second friend is gonna do to well...</p>
<p>-The Pine Coot66</p>
<p>I thought the prose prompt was absolutely ridiculous, so I'm sure I didn't do so well... I honestly don't remember what BS I put down for it.</p>
<p>form b people get at me! how was it?! i need to know how other people think they did...i was in such a cram induced haze throughout the whole damn thing that i cant even remember if it was easy or hard...and the last thing i need is the curve screwing me over!!</p>
<p>I was actually hoping for better prompts. I hate comparing/contrasting stuff and I would rather have analyzed some old poetry or something... So yeah, I didn't really like any of my choices so I started with #3 first (used Tess of the d'Urbervilles), but I sort of lapsed into plot summary and TERRIBLE analysis. I started to panic because it was so bad :) </p>
<p>When I finally did the other ones though I realized they weren't that bad. In #2 I wrote about how being in nature reflected the "natural"-ness of going through that rite of passage (growing up).</p>
<p>I wish I'd written more though...</p>
<p>2nd one I just analyzed the text and used some of the suggestion they gave me (1st person v. 3rd person and selection of detail). I also threw in something about pronoun usage and how the dude (Bill i think it was?) was always reffered to as "Bill" or "Bill+his last name", not "he or him", so it meant that he was an intruder on the close relationship.</p>
<p>I covered up the suggested book list...and luckily the ONLY book I prepared well was on there! lol therefore I used "The Awakening" I had so much I wanted to say...and it was so hard to narrow down the basics :P whoops...should have practiced that! Anyway, wrote 2.5 pages and quite content....except the transitions were a little weak.</p>
<p>Good luck everyone! </p>
<p>Oh, and left 8 MCs blank...yikes?</p>
<p>i used in the lake of the woods for the 3rd. as far as the prose goes, i'm pretty sure there was no 1st person in that passage, and i think that the question limited you to only the elements they talked about in the prompt, so symbolism essays might cause the writer some problems...</p>
<p>i said that the third person gave a detached feeling, much like the relationship between the father and son</p>
<p>it seems like most ppl thought the exam was easy</p>
<p>"But I used Frankenstein and it fit perfectly since Dr. Frankenstein spends most of the book dealing with his past actions."</p>
<p>For some reason I though that you're supposed to write about the past that wasn't described in the book using the present time narrative. But then again, Frankenstein retells his story, so I see how that can work.</p>
<p>"They're not allowed to grade the essay unless they've read the book, so that wouldn't work."</p>
<p>Really? what if no one there has read it? what then?...automatic 9 :)</p>
<p>was i the only to use wuthering heights? a lot of people at my school did, they also used scarlet letter, hamlet, pride and prejudice</p>
<p>hmm
for the second one I wrote more about how he was evolving into manhood and reluctantly breaking off his relationship with his dad.
I analyzed the increased sophistication shown in sentence structure and stuff to show how he was becoming more independent.
And then I wrote about 1st vs 3rd person thingy...
pretty different from what you guys have been saying
ah well i thought it was good at the time</p>
<p>Increased sophistication in sentence structure? When the son spoke, they were long, run-on sentences. I said that he was nervous about telling his dad he was not going on the traditional fishing trip. His father's sentences were much shorter, as if speaking too much would allow his true feelings come out.</p>
<p>I used "The House of the Spirits" for the last essay. Haven't heard that one yet from anyone else though.</p>
<p>Damn, I just saw the FRQ online (It was not the one I took..different test) and question 3...my god, I did EXACTLY that same prompt (almost the same!) during the school year and actually have it on my disk now...jeez. Oh well, at least I didn't have a two-poem comparison. That would have screwed me up big time.</p>
<p>haru07, did u do form b??</p>
<p>I used The Sound and the Fury...did anyone else used that?</p>
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<p>Actually, my teacher's been a reader in the past and she told us about one time when a kid made up a book...</p>
<p>The reader who got his essay didn't know the book, so he gave it to the table reader, who then showed it to several other table readers & the room manager... Because nobody had heard of it, during the lunch break someone went to Borders and looked it up, just to find the book didn't exist. Instant 0.</p>