<p>@henchard01: yeah, I used Richard Parker. Life of Pi was a good choice because it’s so blatantly layered, which means you can get a lot of mileage out of one symbol =P I wrote about how Richard Parker symbolized that “love or duty” that people sometimes need to survive, that he symbolized God, and that he symbolized Pi himself and his animalistic nature on the lifeboat - depending on how you read the story</p>
<p>My free-responses were ridiculously short. The first two were both about 1.75 pages and the open-ended was just over 2 pages. I don’t know why they are so short… I guess I’m just a really slow writer. I could have written much more on each had I had more than 40 minutes! I think the content is fine, it’s just that there’s not a lot of it. How much will length impact my score?</p>
<p>i was going to do heart of darkness, but i had the picture of dorian gray on my mind so i ran with it</p>
<p>What do you all think of Allie’s baseball mitt in Catcher in the Rye?</p>
<p>And @ Poseur: I gave nothing away about the test!</p>
<p>I wrote Gatsby using the green light as a symbol for the unattainable past.</p>
<p>I was going to do Sons & lovers, but then I couldn’t think of a symbol, so I just used used Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, which is an easy one to do and it doesn’t seem like many people chose it.</p>
<p>Is it just me or was I the only one who characterized the wind as “sexual” and playful towards the end because it played with L (can’t say the rest) e’s hair and “made her feel naked” and other stuff. Idk, haha. Hopefully they take it seriously because what I wrote was well-written, but also hilarious. bahahaa After the test, my friend said he did the exact same thing. :D</p>
<p>I used “Rosencrants & Guildenstern are Dead” by Tom Stoppard.</p>
<p>I talked about the coin-flipping game in the beginning.</p>
<p>i did the first and last essays, then i fell asleep/zoned out for like 45 min and ended up barely scribbling a couple paragraphs for the 2nd one. ■■■</p>
<p>squadus: OMG I did the absolute same thing for the prose essay! I talked about _____ being “violated” and “abused” by the wind’s “cold fingers” “exploring” her making her “bald and naked”.
That was one my central points, too. And I thought I was being all unique and stuff.
Blast!
;)</p>
<p>Anyone use the titular phrase “the price” as their symbol for Arthur Miller’s The Price? Not that I did, because I technically don’t remember anything I did on that test for another 40 hours or so, but just saying. </p>
<p>Also, the person next to me seemed to mention that all my essays were short, one was 1.5 pages, the other were barely more than 2, according to what they said. Of course, I have no idea if what that person said is actually true, if you catch my drift. I don’t think short essays are much of a problem, though, as long as you have some good analyzing and quotes and stuff.</p>
<p>“the wind fingered through the crevices of the sidewalk”</p>
<p>that’s what she said.</p>
<p>crap, was there 4 or 5 passages for MC???</p>
<p>I think i only answered 4 passages!!!</p>
<p>*Deleted to abide by agreement</p>
<p>Diner? Huh?</p>
<p>I remember 5.</p>
<p>
just sayin’</p>
<p>*Deleted to abide by agreement</p>
<p>You forgot about the passage w/ Jude and the farming. Something like that</p>
<p>Yeh you guys should just wait the 48 hours and then do all the discussing you want. It isn’t worth it to discuss stuff that you have no control over anymore. Risk > benefits.</p>
<p>I dont care for what the actual MC were, i just need to know how many passages were on there!!!</p>
<p>^yeah, that makes five fingers on a hand</p>