<p>ok, I’m probably being REALLY anal…but fucc it…I’m a grammar nerd lol</p>
<p>but bongo23…can you please stop incorrectly spelling “interpretation”…it’s “pre” not “per”…you’ve done it like 50 times in this post alone…not trying to be a jack@ss lol</p>
<p>How do you confuse the two? THE COUNTRY is different from A COUNTRY! </p>
<p>1000 posts! I’m a senior member ;)</p>
<p>runningincircles’ name sums this thread up nicely</p>
<p>bluthunder: welcome to the age of spell check and I am the child of this age…always need to learn :)</p>
<p>“runningincircles name sums this thread up nicely”</p>
<p>I’d say I agreed. I really would. But somehow, I feel like agreeing with Bongo is against my non-existent religion. So I refuse to actually type the words.</p>
<p>honestly…why can’t we just say that there COULD have been a different interpretation. </p>
<p>I know that I’m not amazing at English and I took one look at the prompt and totally thought nation. In fact, I looked at the words country side and totally ruled them out as a mis-type. Obviously, according to all on CC that was wrong as hell. I wrote about a country… I suppose it was my mistake for not reading the books given but honestly, I don’t think I’m going to get a 0 or a 1 on the essay. I mean, there are people who don’t even WRITE one essay who get 5’s on the exam. </p>
<p>It’ll be fine…</p>
<p>you cant really expect to get a 5 w/o writing an entire essay…inles you got every MC right…maybe 1/10000 chance</p>
<p>Ok so on the THIRD essay, did anybody study novels that didn’t fit it at all?</p>
<p>For example, i prepared especially:
Crime and Punishment (<- takes place in st. petersburg… a huge city)
Death of a Salesman (<- city again)
1984 (<- UH OCEANIA… no country setting whatsoever… or so i thought until somebody mentioned it… been awhile since i read it and i just sparknoted it the day before)</p>
<p>So i was like ***FFF you are kidding, right?</p>
<p>But luckily I remembered Tess of the D’Urbervilles which I used… I was surprised i remembered more than i thought (like character’s names… Angel, Alec)</p>
<p>I am surprised that people took “country” as nation. How does that even make sense? Come on guys, you are in AP english classes, you should have figured that out… Somebody argued it was ambigous and perhaps it was, but when one thinks of “nation” many do not think of it as “primitive” or “innocent.” No, not all nations are full of intelligent and scientific people, but would primitive and innocent really make you think of a nation? Not really. Soon as I read the prompt, I thought of countryside and didn’t even think of interpretting that as a “nation.” Perhaps it was thanks to Tess of the D’Urbervilles where our class talked about how country represented her innocence, etc… But the book choices i saw on the list were mostly books that country (rural) setting played an important role.</p>
<p>I hope AP people will take kindly to you though… I would be nervous… but really i don’t think its going to hit you guys that hard because ALOT of people seem to have done it…</p>
<p>Do you guys think cold mountain fits the prompt?</p>
<p>yeah i agree it was vague, but it said setting so I just wrote about The Scarlet Letter, which was on the list anyway…</p>
<p>I didn’t have trouble with interpretting country as rural, but at first i thought we could write about whatever setting we wanted. Then i read it again and it said where “country setting” is important blah blah… so I wrote about country side…</p>
<p>Did anybody got the country= rural part but wrote about whatever setting they wanted? (like a city or something?)</p>
<p>OH btw my parents who do not speak proficient english (their first language is korean…) read the prompt and took country as a country side, not a nation (although most of the time they would’ve used the word country to mean a nation) so…</p>
<p>“Many writers use a country setting to establish values within a work of literature. For example, the country may be a place of virtue and peace or primitivism and ignorance. Choose a novel in which such a setting plays a significant role. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the country setting functions in the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.”</p>
<p>Choose a <em>novel</em> in which such a setting plays a significant role.</p>
<p>king lear? cherry orchard?</p>
<p>the cb is full of **** anyway, so it probably doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>I have no idea how you could not understand. They even said it could be a serene place or a place of ignorance. Even if you didn’t know THEN, it would have tipped you off.</p>
<p>A lot of my friends made this mistake too… I really feel bad for all of you who did so because I guess I can see how you could misinterpret the prompt…but honestly, I really doubt that CB is going to accept the nation response. From what I’ve seen, the CB ppl will do w/e they can to prove they weren’t wrong, and in this case they can easily argue that the misinterpretation was the student’s fault; it was not due to any faulty wording on their part. The grammatical structure of the prompt makes it impossible for the word “country” to be used in the sense of nation(read it again if you don’t believe me). So… if you wrote about the nation, I would suggest just keeping your fingers crossed for a 4, because I doubt CB is going to give anything above a 1 for an essay about the country in which a book took place. Let me reiterate that I don’t think this is fair…honestly after 2 essays and a fairly difficult MC section a mistake like this would have been easy to make, and I know a lot of people did make it. The thing is…CB really isn’t going to care =/</p>
<p>uyulove- Crime and Punishment had a country setting at the end of the book though it’s kinda brief but serves as a good contrast between city life and country life (Siberia)</p>
<p>I thought this prompt was as obvious as any other that I’ve seen. I honestly don’t get how you could have taken the “country setting” with the mentioning of “primitivism and ignorance” to mean nation.</p>
<p>I know quite a few people who wrote about Heart of Darkness (obviously interpreting “country” as nation). When I read it, I thought about that for a minute (since it never said “rural”), but quickly determined that it meant “rural” considering the books they listed. I think complaining to CB will get you guys absolutely nowhere. The phrase “the country setting,” as others have said, completely gave it away if the list of books didn’t.</p>
<p>Actually, I think Heart of Darkness would have worked somewhat well for that prompt. The setting most certainly was not developed enough to be considered urban, so you could say that it the “country” setting occurs in the wilderness of Africa. And Africa is not a nation, so I don’t think AP Lit takers would have considered it as such.</p>
<p>I think the clue was “A COUNTRY” setting. How would anything else make sense? If it were a country then you can write about anything it would just be too random.</p>
<p>I disliked this essay immensely. I wrote about Sense and Sensibility but what I had to say was somewhat flat. The other two essays were pretty decent I think. But the FRQ was annoying. We never read any books that dealt with the countryside, save for East of Eden, and that only somewhat fit the criteria. Luckily I read Sense and Sensibility a while back, but it was a while back and so I was confusing a lot of the movie with the book and had to stay away from anything I might have been bungling up.</p>