<p>^^Same. I didn’t see any judgment from the narrator. I read it as a omniscient insight into what the dude thought of himself and the people around him. I think I said “indifferent” and “unbiased” in my essay.</p>
<p>SO FREAKING HAPPY. That was much easier than I was anticipating! MC was a piece of cake aside from the first poem which was kind of weird. I used The Scarlet Letter for the third essay</p>
<p>MC was fairly easy.
The first essay was okay, and the second was difficult. For essay 3 I was struggling to come up with something. I reviewed Othello, The Kite Runner, and In the Lake of the Woods and none of those or anything else I’ve read this year fit! I did In the Lake of the Woods, but it may have been a stretch… haha do you think that could actually work anyone who’s read it?</p>
<p>did anyone use catcher in the rye for the third essay?</p>
<p>I used Heart of Darkness for 3rd, the only book that I could relate with the prompt. btw MC was kind of easy, i almost cry with the poem of Sharon Olds.</p>
<p>no but that would indeed be a good one :)</p>
<p>Wondering if anyone else used Scarlet Letter… I thought it pretty much fit the prompt perfectly. I was surprised to see that it wasn’t one of the novels listed there. I thought about writing about The Odyssey instead but I didn’t want to mess it up, and I know TSL pretty well.</p>
<p>^ one from my class used the Scarlet Letter. The Odyssey was great for 3 but I couldn’t remember the plot really good to make a good essay.</p>
<p>what was the meaning in the 1st free response poem i had no clue… oh well</p>
<p>I thought the MC was kinda tricky – the song for the beloved threw me because I answered as if the guy was actually dying (my interpretation, anyway?) and I don’t know if I completely missed the point.</p>
<p>And I thought the deception one with the golden locks or whatever was confusing, too. Airport was ridiculously easy, the whale and the walking at night ones were okay.</p>
<p>I agree that the author was definitely critical in the second essay, too – I wrote about how the broad third-person POV allowed her to share an insight into the character’s motives and kind of critique them. But I dunno… I guess here’s to waiting til July! :)</p>
<p>Essay #3: This essay was designed for invisible man! I dominated this.
Essay #2: similar style to the 2001 question. It was a fairly easy prompt. Our teacher drilled us on IRONY, that was helpful.
Essay #1: The poem was simple enough, but kind of lame.</p>
<p>I used Frankenstein for question 3.</p>
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<p>TERRORIST FIST JAB.</p>
<p>It was easy to understand, at least. We could’ve gotten something from Plath or, even worse, Ben Jonson.</p>
<p>I felt the MC was really easy. MC has never been a problem for me and I did very well on the released ones.
The first essay wasn’t bad, but I did it last and was running out of time. Therefore it wasn’t too great.
The second essay was terrible. I looked at it and had no idea what was going on. I felt that there was a ton of back knowledge needed to try and figure it out. I did this one first and time was ticking away so I just started to write and began to figure it out as I went.
The first time I read the third essay I thought I was screwed. I marked off the novels I had read and there weren’t as many as in previous prompts. Jane Eyre would have been the best on the list for me but I totlally blanked and forgot Rochester’s name. Then I chose Kite Runner. I actually came up with a list that I liked a ton better than their list.</p>
<p>I thought the multiple choice was pretty easy. I’m a bit scared I guessed too much though! Eh, we’ll see how it went. And I hated that stupid passage about the decapitated whale. Who gives a crap? (Wait, am I allowed to talk about the passages? LOL)</p>
<p>The free response questions weren’t bad, but like you guys said, the third was totally specific. I had Heart of Darkness, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Crime and Punishment, and The Bluest Eye ready. When I got to the 3rd question, I was ecstatic. 2 of them (C&P and HoD) were on there, so I picked C&P because it’s one of my favorite novels of all time. Quite easy to write about: Raskolnikov’s intentional social isolation and his physical isolation in prison. I guess we’ll see in July though!</p>
<p>the multichoice was hilariously easy. i really loved the selections - they were all really interesting!
i actually think that i did worse on the first essay than i did on the second. for the third one, i used huck finn and it tied in nicely.</p>
<p>you don’t have to use things on that list.</p>
<p>wow. you guys are making me feel bad about my essays… but who knows. we’ll see in july.</p>
<p>As everyone’s said, MC was pretty easy. I’m not so strong in that, though, so I’d guess that I missed at least ten, probably a few more.</p>
<p>As far as essays go:
1: My worst essay, I think. I just used what they gave us… Tone, Imagery, Structure.
2: Decent, used what they gave us: Point of View, Tone (Unbiased!), and Language, plus duality.
3: Wrote about Heart of Darkness. I was so excited that the novel I was planning to write on fit perfectly! I rocked this essay.</p>
<p>Most of the people in my class did Heart of Darkness, I think, because we spent a good month going over it off and on. Some people did Lord of the Flies, and I know of one girl who did Wuthering Heights.</p>
<p>we read jane eyre and heart of darkness but i felt king lear fit perfectly so i wrote on that- anyone else?</p>