<p>Some girl in my Lit class said that is was some part of mythology?
She was the only one i know who put that, i was wondering if anybody else did....</p>
<p>Ok so I totally butchered the Hawk essay. I said was a foreboding of the end if we continued on destroying nature and replacing it with man made things, thus the random use of a pipe. Luckily, even the person in my class who made a 5 on AP language did not have a clue so I do not feel that bad.</p>
<p>Do you think if I blew away the other two essays I would have a chance at a five? I usually got around 48 MC questions right on practice tests. I wrote about the three country settings in Thier Eyes were Watching God and how each one correlated with Janie's own stuggle towards individuality.</p>
<p>I talked about the hiogrylphics (spelling???) and the Egyptian worship of hawks. Sort of mythological. I completely missed the irony of the duchess being hypocritical. But I did write about how shallow they were and how they did not discuss current events or important matters but rather gossiped about each other. Also used Lord Darlingtons quote about how he takes life too seriously to be serious about it. Also did anyone else notice the whole irony of his name Darlington. Like my whole class got it and yet I missed it.</p>
<p>I think the hieroglypics was another example of the hawk being a timeless being</p>
<p>sous-I'm from Wheeling. I thought perhaps you were from my school because you sound like a girl I know, we talked about that aspect of Wilde, and all her sn's are in french. :D I agree with you about the prompt.</p>
<p>It's not the length that counts... it's whether or not you proved your point, how well you wrote (not Shakespeare, per se, but not a 1st grader, either), if you proved it with the text, and if you "wow the reader" that gets you high points, especially the last one (if you show them a point of view or some other evidence skipped over by the other kids, you will impress the reader thus get a higher score).</p>
<p>I can't wait for the third week of July! Wooo!!!!</p>
<p>Neither can I!!!!</p>
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<p>Ok so on the THIRD essay, did anybody study novels that didn't fit it at all?</p>
<p>For example, i prepared especially:
Crime and Punishment (<- takes place in st. petersburg.. a huge city)
Death of a Salesman (<- city again)
1984 (<- UH OCEANIA.. no country setting whatsoever.. or so i thought until somebody mentioned it.. been awhile since i read it and i just sparknoted it the day before)</p>
<p>So i was like ***FFF you are kidding, right?</p>
<p>But luckily I remembered Tess of the D'Urbervilles which I used... I was surprised i remembered more than i thought (like character's names.. Angel, Alec)</p>
<p>I am surprised that people took "country" as nation. How does that even make sense? Come on guys, you are in AP english classes, you should have figured that out... I hope AP people will take kindly to you though... I would be nervous...</p>
<p>Hawk essay was completely butchered by me.. i interpreted it as people should pay attention to their nature and surroundings instead of interpretting everything so 'logically...' or some shi.t like that.</p>
<p>I don't know about the play essay. Did anybody mention Agatha in the essay? I did and I hope it'll give me some extra points for not leaving the 4th character out...</p>
<p>Imaginary iceburg was the crappiest poem i ever read.. the first poem was easy though.</p>
<p>heh...I only mentioned two of the characters. That's probably not a good thing. Oh well.</p>
<p>For the hawk one, I talked about the contrasting items in the poem: hawk vs. owl, light vs. dark, swift vs. slow... also talked about his use of imagery, metaphors, and understatements to support the idea of transition from dusk to night. </p>
<p>2nd passage--I talked about the irony of the dialogue, class distinction, gender distinction, etc.</p>
<p>3rd passage, I used Don Quixote and the various settings in the novel (open countryside vs. the castles/inns, etc.)</p>
<p>I thought about using Don Quixote but couldn't remember enough about it. ^_^</p>
<p>For the third one, I talked Pride and Prejudice, and how each small town (lizzie's home, Catherine's estate, and Pemberly) had a social stereotype attached to it (lizzie's town as socially primative, Catherine's estate as an improvement, and Pemberly as the epitome of British society) and how these stereotypes impacted the characters' behavior at each and their relationships.</p>
<p>I also said that because Dacy and Lizzie were able to be socially functioning in each of the three various settings by the end of the novel, they showed they were above Austen's mockery of 18th century British society, unlike Miss Bingley and Mrs. Bennet, who were only socially comfortable in the town which was the personification of their own social bearing.</p>
<p>For the country one, I used Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Hardy, because the dairy farm setting paralleled the way everyone exploited Tess for her fertility... I don't know if any of you have read it...</p>
<p>But yeah I totally suck at the whole "analyzing the author's use of language" thing, so I definitely think that for the hawk poem I just talked about themes without mentioning "euphony" and "meter" and crap like that...</p>
<p>Oh well... the entire test is just a blur to me right now anyway.</p>
<p>uyulove, Crime and Punishment works, lol!</p>
<p>Siberia, epilogue, hello?!??! Perfect scene would be when they are at the river and it was springtime and the mood completely shifts to one of hope...that would have been a great country setting essay! The country was a place of hope and new beginnings compared to St. Petersburg. Also talk about Raskolnikob's roots, he's a country boy! How did his moral change from his childhood country days (remember beating the horse?) to his time in St. Petersburg.</p>
<p>Still a tough one to pull though...the listed novels were easier</p>
<p>I did Sense and Sensibility for the FRQ. Tomorrow we talk in class about the essays, so that should be interesting as we didn't really study anything in class that would count. We did East of Eden, but I don't really think that applied as much as other books would. A few people had read Huck Finn and so they used that, I was the only one from my class to think Jane Austen. But I kept confusing the movie with the book as I just watched the movie not too long ago. I had to stay away from bungling up my essay with the film. </p>
<p>The hawk essay I think I did very well on. I wrote that it was apocalyptic with its foreboding approach of darkness as sunsets symbolize death. I used the "still thrush" and "bats cruising only in heiroglyphics" to represent the disappearance of life. That and the final stanza's talk about the earth squeaking on its axis and hearing the drip of history over the wind. </p>
<p>The play excerpt annoyed me but I think I did well enough on it. I understood where the characters were coming from and pointed out some funny bits in it. I pointed out that a Duke and Duchess are higher up in class than a Lord of Lady and that the Duchess of Berwick thus takes advantage of her title. I did mention Agatha, but only in mentioning Darlington's reputation. I think Jane Austen helped me with that essay and all the period movies I watch about England and such.</p>
<p>I hope I did well on the multiple choice. I always get flustered with those questions because they seem like they're open to interpretation. And I was totally prepared for questions like, "Find the synecdoche in this line . . ." and they didn't have anything regarding literature terms. Grr.</p>
<p>bongo23- I don't know, I really wouldn't call Siberia necessarily "country." Well it is rural but quite different from my view of rural country setting...(that's just me though... living in an actual country area) </p>
<p>What i focused on when i was reading this book was more ubermensch aspect of it...And it was quite brief (i read the book quite quickly anyways) mention so i think tess of the d'urbervilles served this essay MUCH better. It was perfect for this essay.</p>
<p>Besides, least i got it was a country setting and not a nation setting. So ^_^</p>
<p>Hawk essay was bleh.</p>
<p>I've read Lady Windermere's Fan previously (though not in school) so I got incredibly excited when I saw that, and my essay ended up pretty good.</p>
<p>I also was fortunate with the third one, because As I Lay Dying was my first choice of book to use, assuming it fit the prompt, and obviously it did.</p>
<p>Multiple choice was fine.</p>
<p>Wow surprisingly there are a lot of people who said they nailed the first and second prompts and failed the third--for me, it was vice versa! (And pretty much everyone else at my school too...keeping in mind that there are about 300 students taking AP Lit from AHS) Anyway, I had NO idea what the first and second prompts were talking about. I seriously had to pull all my BS skills from everywhere in order to even fit one page of writing. Yeah, even today I still don't get it, but oh well!</p>
<p>The third one was really easy for me--I don't know why so many people interpreted it as a geographical political country as opposed to a rural setting. And I don't really think it's fair to criticize CB for that because like someone before me said, it's not anymore vague than the other words on the test. I mean who would think that they would put out a prompt that asks you to write on an actual country? I guess a lot of people but I just used Tess of the D'Urbervilles--I think that book fits the absolute best because the events of the novel are actually driven by the fact that it's set in a rural area as opposed to an industrialized city. </p>
<p>Plus, don't freak out about it guys! I'm assuming that most of us are seniors, so we're going to college next year. Who cares anymore about AP Exams? LOL okay fine that's just because I'm a lazy bum and I don't care about school AT ALL anymore.</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness would've worked REALLY well too, but it didn't showup on the choices.</p>