<p>essay #1 was OK decent amount to talk about
essay #2 wasnt a fan of…it was a weird question/text
essay #3 was SUCH a specific topic…i didnt read a single book on the list so I had to REALLY twist my thesis by using Waiting for Godot i higgly doubt anyone else used that play</p>
<p>MC i prolly messed up 5-6 it wasnt overly hard - comparable to SAT II</p>
<p>hopefully that’ll get me a 4</p>
<p>@purifythecolors…the way you talk you DEFINITELY got a 5…i came up with the same stuff for #2 as you</p>
<p>MC was very easy. I was like o_o at the whale one though. Weirdddd.
Essay #1 - easy easy easy. Loved it. My best essay.
Essay #2 - Sucked. Ugh.
Essay #3 - Jane Eyre. I wrote my research paper on this basically!</p>
<p>@strawberrymilk…i wrote a conclusion + intro + how it alienates + how it helps</p>
<p>didnt get a chance to write a 5th parapgraph bout the third question -_-</p>
<p>also my #1 essay was 4 paragraphs and #2 essay was 3 paragraphs</p>
<p>will i even get a 4???</p>
<p>For #2 I talked a lot about the sardonic tone based on sophisticated diction and the attitude of the narrator toward the character, and the hypocrisy and transferrance of the character’s insecurities.</p>
<h1>1 I did really well too, but it was so easy that I feel like you’d need to more analysis than normal to get a 9.</h1>
<p>Pbbuff, a lot of people I know did Huck Finn. But I think Portrait of the Artist was the most popular here since we just read it.
I hope that not too many people did Things Fall Apart. We don’t read it in school here, but I don’t know about elsewhere.</p>
<p>did anyone do The Road?</p>
<p>Why does it matter if too many people did your book? I mean, they don’t grade you down if you happen to use a novel that’s popular to answer that essay.</p>
<p>The problem with Huck Finn for me was trying to think of the alienation from leaving his town. Oh well I just made up some connections haha
I was going to do The Road or Heart of Darkness but I couldn’t remember any of their names; and then I found out right after the test that they didn’t name the father and son in The Road</p>
<p>Oh well. I did well enough for a 3, but not sure about a 4 or 5.</p>
<p>Yeah. I don’t think it matters as to what book you chose, but rather, how well you’ve presented and supported your thesis. You easily score a six if you present a solid thesis and support it. Seven is complex; eight is even more complex. And then a nine just means you are God.</p>
<p>I took a gamble and wrote about the book of exodus. We’ll see how that went in July.</p>
<p>Hahahaha whaaaaat? That’s insane. I asked my AP Lit teacher about what would happen if someone used the Bible and she yelled at me for not taking the test seriously, because no one would do that.</p>
<p>Def come back in July and tell us how you did. I’m interested. I mean, it DOES have “literary merit”.</p>
<p>Essay three, I did Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. I thought it was perfect because Billy Pilgrim is alienated from his home, society, humanity, and even time itself!! Hopefully I got a 9/9 on that essay.</p>
<p>I think i got atleast 7/9’s on the other two essays. And MC was a joke. If I do not get a 5, I will be incredibly surprised.</p>
<p>Crap. I think I forgot to talk about the meaning of the work as a whole in the 3rd essay. I’m pretty sure I included a sentence about it though. I mainly just talked about how the character was enriched by his alienation from society… how many points do you guys think I will get off for that?</p>
<p>When are we allowed to discuss the MC on here?</p>
<p>I used Jane Eyre also 
Think I kinda wrote a plot summary though >< yay for a 1</p>
<p>Regarding the Bible: we were going through old Q3s in our class, and someone proudly announced that they would write a certain one using the New Testament to show how Jesus is a stereotyped character. He got yelled at for his complete insensitivity, as he did when he wanted to write an essay about how the Bible is simply made up of mythological allusions. So before the AP exam, the teacher asked him to ask himself “is this the right time and the right place to mention the Jesus/the Bible?” He announced that indeed he did cite the Bible in his last essay, regarding King Lear. I didn’t ask him how that worked out. (edit: if you’re reading this, I relate this story in good faith, I swear!)</p>
<p>And I did Crime and Punishment, though I took a very broad interpretation of the prompt. But risk is good, right? Right?</p>
<p>@sqdwfe13 Well if you talked about how the character was enriched by his alienation from society, you had to have arrived at some theme, right? Or at least implied one?</p>
<p>The multiple choice was very easy, at least for me.
I’m expecting 6’s and 7’s on the essay (I was getting so, so disjointed toward the end). I used Brave New World for #3. 1 & 2 are a blur.
Expecting a 4 (or a 5 if I’m lucky).</p>
<p>Anyone else use Vonnegut?</p>
<p>@wanton- Yes, I had one sentence about how the character’s alienation enforces the rigidity of social roles in his society and I wrote the whole essay about how the character I was talking about arrived at that conclusion through his alienation. How does that sound?</p>