<p>yea, i thought that the nature bowl poem was the hardest and that senator in the mud was the easiest.</p>
<p>got it!!</p>
<p>the annie john excerpt</p>
<p>If someone had asked me for a little summing up of my life at that moment as I lay in bed, I would have said, "My name is Annie John. I was born on the fifteenth of september, seventeen years ago, Holberton Hospital, at five o'clock in the morning. At the time I was born, the moon was going down at one end of the sky and the sun was coming up at the other. My mother's name is Annie also. My father's name is Alexander, and he is thirty-five years older than my mother. Two of his children are four and six years older than she is. Looking at how sickly he has become and looking at the way my mother now has to run up and down for him, gathering the herbs and barks that he boils in water, which he drinks instead of the medicine the doctor has ordered for him, I plan not only never to marry an old man but certainly never to marry at all. The house we live in my father built with his own hands. The bed I am lying in my father built with his own hands. Why my mother uses a large wooden spoon to stir the porridge we sometimes eat as part of our breakfast, it will be a spoon that my father has carved with his own hands. The sheets on my bed my mother made with her own hands. The curtains hanging at my window my mother made with her own hands. The nightie I am wearing, with scalloped neck and hem and sleeves, my mother made with her own hands. When I look at things in a certain way, I suppose I should say that the two of them made me with their own hands. For most of my life, when the three of us went anywhere together I stood between the two of them or sat between the two of them. But then I got too big, and there I was, shoulder to shoulder with them more or less, and it became not very comfortable to walk down the street together. And so now here they are together and here I am apart. I don't see them now the way I used to, and I don't love them now the way I used to. The bitter thing about it is that they are just the same and it is I who have changed, so all the things I used to be and all the things I used to feel are as false as the teeth in my father's head. Why, I wonder, didn't I see the hypocrite in my mother when, over the years, she said that she loved me and could hardly live without me, while at the same time proposing and arranging separation after separation, including this one, which, unbeknownst to her, I have arranged to be permanent? So now I, too, have hypocrisy, and breasts (small ones), and hair growing in the appropriate places, and sharp eyes, and I have made a vow never to be fooled again."</p>
<p>Lying in my bed for the last time, I thought, This is what I add up to. At that, I felt as if someone had placed me in a hole and was forcing me first down and then up against the pressure of gravity. I shook myself and prepared to get up. I said to myself, "I am getting up out of this bed for the last time." Everything I would do that morning until I got on the ship that would take me to England I would be doing for the last time...</p>
<p>thank me, that wasn't in the public domain.</p>
<p>she's awfully repetitive, in each phrase, in each clause, in each sentence, and in each paragraph.</p>
<p>btw, what's the last passage? i have six and can't remember any more, but there has to be one more right?</p>
<p>i had to pee during this test, making it hard for me to read. If i got mid 600s id be happy</p>
<p>I put revolutionary feminist for the O'Connor passage, because somewhere in the passage the narrator replies to something her mother said by saying "That's why we have revolutions" or something along those lines. There didn't seem to be anything that indicated the narrators race so feminist seemed like the best answer at the time. Also, for the women and husbands/adultery passage, there was something in the first line I believe about how it is a husband's fault when women "fall" or something like that, and I think I had it narrowed down that "fall" meant either divorce/separation OR adultery (in other words, they themselves commit adultery and "fall", so to speak, from their good judgment and morals) I don't remember what I put in the end, does anybody remember this question?</p>
<p>I put "fall" meant adultery.</p>
<p>The passages were
I Annie John
II Pink and White Carnations (the poems of our climate)
III Senator, woman, and child
IV Loving in truth poem
V Flannery O'Connor
VI Othello (adultery)
VII Dorothea and Mr. Casaubon (from Middlemarch)</p>
<p>hmm, i completely forgot about the dorothea and mr. casaubon thing even though i just read the plot. can anyone refresh me on it? it must have been really easy or something for no one to bring it up.</p>
<p>ok thanks.. to complete the collection:</p>
<p>Dorothea rose to leave the table and Mr Casaubon made no reply, taking up a letter which lay beside him as if to reperuse it. Both were shocked at their mutual situation -- that each should have betrayed anger towards the other. If they had been at home, settled at Lowick in ordinary life among their neighbours, the clash would have been less embarrassing: but on a wedding journey, the express object of which is to isolate two people on the ground that they are all the world to each other, the sense of disagreement is, to say the least, confounding and stultifying. To have changed your longitude extensively, and placed yourselves in a moral solitude in order to have small explosions, to find conversation difficult and to hand a glass of water without looking, can hardly be regarded as satisfactorytory fulfilment even to the toughest minds. To Dorothea's inexperienced sensitiveness, it seemed like a catastrophe, changing all prospects; and to Mr Casaubon it was a new pain, he never having been on a wedding journey before, or found himself in that close union which was more of a subjection than he had been able to imagine, since this charming young bride not only obliged him to much consideration on her behalf (which he had sedulously given), but turned out to be capable of agitating him cruelly just where he most needed soothing. Instead of getting a soft fence against the cold, shadowy, unapplausive audience of his life, had he only given it a more substantial presence?</p>
<p>some of youse have amazing memories. i don't know how you do it.</p>
<p>1: For the adultery poem, i got something about looking askance for the question asking about scant and former, cuz the husbands criticize women even tho they have faults. Askance i think means to be critical or something.</p>
<p>2: For the question asking about the organization, did anyone get general to specific? She talked about general facts about her life, then got really specific with ages, memories, feelings, etc. There was the answer choice about introspection and evaluation, and thats pretty much the same thing, talking about herself and then going in-depth about her feelings.</p>
<p>3: For the oconnor grass thing, i saw it as envy: </p>
<p>Well, you know, she says, it is true, as they say, that the grass is always greener on the other side. That is, until you find yourself over there.</p>
<p>In a just society, of course, clichés like this could not survive.</p>
<p>But grass can be greener on the other side and not be just an illusion, I say. Grass on the other side of the fence might have good fertilizer, while grass on your side might have to grow, if it grows at all, in sand.</p>
<p>So, the author is saying that this aphorism, which deals with petty jealouy, would not be valid in a just society, where there is no social disparity. In her society though, there is injustice and a discrepancy between the "fertilizer" and "sand," so envy would be both warranted and expected. Thus, the aphorism, to the author, implies envy, for the grass is not "just an illusion," in a society, the author's society, where painfully clear social boundaries produce large differences among races. Do you guys get where I am going? ahh so confusing... =( Alot of ppl got resignation, but why?</p>
<p>4: For the carriage one, what were the answer choices to the one about how the scene is confusing except? Some of them were dashes, present tense, viewpoint...</p>
<p>5: Galls...I said ire and resentment, i think, but I don't know why......</p>
<p>6: For the oconnor one, the mom was there to be a counterpoint rite?</p>
<p>Why is the lit so hard? Much harder than SAT I <em>sob</em></p>
<p>o yea, how many questions was the test?</p>