<p>Heart of Darkness? never heard of it. </p>
<p>i think anyone taking the AP Lit test should at least have read Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, and Crime and Punishment. don’t really need anything else. </p>
<p>i wrote about Crime and Punishment BTW.</p>
<p>As I Lay Dying</p>
<p>my ap lit teacher quotes or references heart of darkness ALL THE TIME. or one of us will make fun of her by saying “the horror the horror” to something we dont like in there lol. </p>
<p>i personally didnt like that book…</p>
<p>You really are not supposed to be discussing anything about the actual AP exams for 48 hours- remember, there are others that may not have taken them yet due to illness, school closings,etc. That being said, as a former teacher and mom of a senior who just took the test and was forced to read the book in question…it was hard to listen to her critique of it (she detested it) and I continue to wonder what ever happened to classic literature? Many of the books she had to read this year- and some of you have mentioned- are far too new to have withstood any “test of time”, are poorly written with little consideration given to grammar or even spelling. Hopefully many of you will not be turned off by what you have been presented with this school year and will continue to explore literature in college. Good luck to all!</p>
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<p>Yes, because that sums up literature for the past 1000 years…</p>
<p>Also, you’re not supposed to write essays about Gatsby because everyone has done them. On the AP, that is. And none of those is from before 1860, and none of them is written in a particularly challenging style (well, C & P is, but it’s so unique you couldn’t use it as an example of “x”) like stream of consciousness. Also, all male protagonists. What happens when you have to write about a girl, poetry, or existentialism?</p>
<p>…Suck it up and read the hard books. Read them twice. Ask questions of them. Read them again. Eventually, you’ll “get” them and enjoy them.</p>
<p>(English Literature Nerd signing off)</p>
<p>(PS. Technically C&P isn’t “english literature”, and thus, while it has merit in a course like this, should not be the sole focus.)</p>
<p>lol I just wrote about the Catcher in the Rye.</p>
<p>All the people in my class did it on Lord of the Flies (i was contemplating this too actually) but I knew more about Heart of Darkness lol</p>
<p>I’m reading it in my English class too. It’s probably the hardest book to read that I’ve come across.</p>