<p>thanks for the tip</p>
<p>i am planning on using Native son most likely, if not that Ivan illyich or 1984/BNW</p>
<p>Probably...</p>
<p>Beloved, Native Son, The Stranger, A Doll's House, or Catch 22</p>
<p>abhim89-- You can't be penalized for using a book not on the list. That's why they include the "or a work of comparable merit." As long as you choose an appropriate book, you're good.</p>
<p>Little Women is definitely a kids' book. And everyone does Hamlet. The graders are tired of Hamlet.</p>
<p>thanks aniviel</p>
<p>ammeg, thanks! i'll completely cross that off my list then. :D</p>
<p>Invisible Man, The Crucible, The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Grapes of Wrath, The Catcher In The Rye, Their eyes were watching god, The Glass Menagerie, Travels with Charley, The Great Gatsby, The Death of a Salesman, and the things they carried</p>
<p>OOOO the crucible thats a good one. maybe i'll use that one too.</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice, A Farewell to Arms, The Plague, Hamlet (I really don't want to write about it though), Jane Eyre, maybe Invisible Man and/or Persuasion.</p>
<p>Plays - I Henry IV, Hedda Gabler, Cyrano de Bergerac, Happy Days.
Novels - Crime and Punishment, Light in August, The Sun Also Rises, One Hundred Years of Solitude,.</p>
<p>um... hamlet? after hearing that only 7% of people get 5s on this test. since i don't consider myself in the 93+ percentile of testtakers, the test for me is pointless (i only get credit for a 5). just gonna wing it.</p>
<p>maybe song of solomon or oedipus rex too, i'll see how things go</p>
<p>xellis - did she say why it was so difficult to receive a good score using siddhartha?</p>
<p>Personally I'm going with...
1. 1984 (George Orwell)
2. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
3. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
4. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
5. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
6. Long Day's Journey Into Night (Eugene O'Neill)
7. Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
8. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
9. Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
10. The Crucible (Arthur Miller)</p>
<p>Hopefully, between one of these 10 I should be able to write a decent essay :-)</p>
<p>out of my repertoire, im most comfortable with catcher in the rye, catch-22, and the awakening. if i cant find something, frankenstein and heart of darkness are also in consideration.</p>
<p>Darn i realized i dont know the authors of some books. Who wrote their eyes were watching God? And who wrote the catcher in the rye?</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathon Swift</p>
<p>Those are the two I'm most comfortable with. I have a bunch more (plays and novels) that I can hopefully use as well. =)</p>
<p>Gracie, because you can't really do a lot of analyzing with Siddhartha. All his major epiphanies are somewhat literally presented to you and so you wouldn't be writing anything new in essays (if it's about mental changes, father/son relationships, material world/natural world conflicts, search/journey, etc, the novel itself presented the conclusions for these topics quite frankly and so if you wrote about it, you'd basically just be talking about the key points already presented in the text and not making any analytical comments of your own).</p>
<p>She also said it wasn't impossible to score well with it, but that it was far more difficult to present a unique and deep analysis of it since so much was already 'there'.</p>
<p>kevin - sparknotes is your god. </p>
<p>jane eyre, crime & punishment, hamlet, king lear, great expectations, 1984... soforth</p>
<p>1984, Death of a Salesman, Pride and Prejudice, Hedda Gabler, Hamlet, The Color Purple, Their Eyes Were Watching God</p>
<p>more than 4 or so is really unncessary... why are some of you guys going in with 10 texts memorized when the questiosn are vague enough that any given book will work at least 70% of the time? </p>
<p>anyway, im going with... hamlet, king lear, cry the beloved country (i know this one the best), and a doll's house (second best)</p>