<p>I was wondering what character you guys chose for the essay question that was </p>
<p>What fictional character or characters from literature, film, theatre, or television have intrigued you or taught you something and why?</p>
<p>I’d be really interested in reading some of your essays.</p>
<p>I chose Amanda from The Glass Menagerie. It's my dream role to play because she's so multifaceted. </p>
<p>The essay I really had trouble with was the daily ritual one. :(</p>
<p>i initially wrote about Billy Pilgrim from slaughterhouse-five, but then changed it to the circle in the missing piece by Shel Silverstein. The daily ritual was the one that had me most stumped at the beginning, but i think my weakest one was the government official one.</p>
<p>I wrote about a character in one of the movies that my own private little movie group wrote and filmed and performed and produced and all. Kinda gave me a chance to mention that, since there's no real place for it on the application.</p>
<p>veronica mars</p>
<p>i wrote about eloise!</p>
<p>Uma Thurman's character from the movie "Hysterical Blindness".</p>
<p>satyabati from rabindranath tagore's short story "The Artist" - yeah, really random but we read it in my AP English class and i remember thinking OH i want to use this for an essay haha. </p>
<p>yeah, i think my government/community was probably the weakest - it was kinda generic :(</p>
<p>i actually liked my government one the most...</p>
<p>does anyone want to post theirs?</p>
<p>I wrote about Maude from the movie "Harold and Maude." I don't know if this one's very good, but here it is:</p>
<p>A free-thinker and independent spirit until the end, the character of Maude, played by Ruth Gordon, in Hal Ashby’s classic cult film “Harold and Maude” has inspired me. An aging woman going on eighty, Maude seized life with a vigor unparalleled in any film I have seen or book I have read to date. Many raised their eyebrows or scoffed at her antics, wondering if, perhaps, she could be crazy. But while Maude was eccentric, she was not insane; if anything, she was the most reasonable being in the film, and perhaps even in our real world. As she taught Harold the many lessons of life, so too has her character taught me. From Maude I have learned to be an individual, defying all stereotypes and being my own true self; if at eighty she could steal a tree from a sidewalk and transport it to the forest, if she could steal a car and do donuts, so too can I challenge all notions of what I, as a young woman in Traverse City, Michigan, should be, confident in my own individuality. Her character has also taught me to challenge authority and the system, to not settle for the way things are and to work for change, no matter how difficult this may seem. Going fearlessly into death on her eightieth birthday, Maude also intrigued me with her theories on death and accepting the natural course of life. It is evident in the film that Maude took life in her arms and embraced it openly, seizing every moment and making the best of this; I hope that I too, with her influence, can be so fearless, so passionate, and I try to emulate some of these qualities each and every day.</p>
<p>I think that the Circle from The Missing Piece sounds like a great topic :) I wrote about Leo Gursky from The History of Love (by Nicole Krauss...it's fantastic--the book, that is!).</p>
<p>My book club was considering that book. What made you like it so much (well written, good plot, etc.)? Is it sappy?</p>
<p>louisa gradgrind from dickens' "hard times". let's be real, i'd just finished writing an essay on her for english. </p>
<p>my daily ritual was the best, this one was by far the worst. eek. now i really wish i'd done something a little less blatantly old-fashioned.</p>
<p>plus i hated the book, so any mention of the essay also bring back painful recollections of lying on white sand beaches in alexandria... TRYING TO GET TO PAGE 100.</p>
<p>Heh, my daily ritual one was kind of adorable. This one was kinda forced for me. Oh well.</p>
<p>my daily ritual was running.
hahah, kinda weird.</p>
<p>i did running too! watch, now it's going to turn out that running was not at all unique, but the most common</p>
<p>haha, or maybe we're just special! (:</p>
<p>omg running? iiiiit's a smaaall world aaafter aaaall. ;) for the character i did alice, because i am usually somewhere exploring something somewhere i am definately not supposed to be (under the school, abandoned buildings, etc) and get in "affectionate trouble" for it. ;) and im a little slow on the uptake, haha.</p>
<p>Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice. I've read that book over and over since I was ten, and loved it. I said something about pride and prejudice, basically, and how that gets in the way of judging character.</p>
<p>My daily ritual one was also kind of adorable as well: telling my parents i love them every morning. But is that too cheesy?</p>