More Odd Musings...

Ah! The ever looming AP test is finally coming up! Well since I just barely got a 5 on the practice test (just one point above the cut off lol), to prepare I guess I’ll go over a few tips for myself.  1) Definitely go back over most of the novels we read and review the details (in case if they show up on the list of books that I can use for the last question- so I won’t try to use them and then get stuck with a defunct example because I forgot some major detail )  2) Go in depth on the details of the novels / plays that we picked during class and discussed with others in the groups last week (hmm… probably should pick out some good quotes “The Horror, the horror!” XD and motifs, symbols, characterization & character relationships or parallels (King Lear))  3) Practice multiple choice!! … Sadly enough I always get distracted by the distracter answers -__-“ or I don’t realize the full overall meaning of the excerpt or poem until after going through and realizing how all the questions and answers are framed … and analyze more satire in case we get something like the second essay on the practice test or the excerpt we read in class once for a practice multiple choice that described a doctor and the way he treated his patients and wife only it was actually satirically criticizing him.  4) get more sleep (definitely don’t want to fall asleep in the middle of my multiple choice T_T”… though that did happen once in Econ. >_<”… but I ended up doing better on the test than I dreamt I would if that’s any consolation XD).

In discussing the prompts we had today I liked the alienation prompt because I’m pretty sure there were plenty of main characters in the works that we’ve read that are alienated by society  and this alienation allows the writer to express his criticisms of the society that alienates that character.  Although some characters/ situations of alienation are probably better to write about than others I think out of all the works we read Gregor Samsa from Kafka’s The Metamorphosis could work, as well as Nora in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and Meursault from Camus’s The Stranger, and maybe even Daru from Camus’s The Guest? Or perhaps even Blanche a bit  in Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire? (though I’m not sure how much of it is criticism on society? Or on individual’s inability to discern between illusion & reality)… I guess in the end it just boils down to how you write it though…