AP Lit 3rd essay novels

Xellis
Wed, 09 May 2007 22:21:59 +0000

Gracie, because you can’t really do a lot of analyzing with Siddhartha. All his major epiphanies are somewhat literally presented to you and so you wouldn’t be writing anything new in essays (if it’s about mental changes, father/son relationships, material world/natural world conflicts, search/journey, etc, the novel itself presented the conclusions for these topics quite frankly and so if you wrote about it, you’d basically just be talking about the key points already presented in the text and not making any analytical comments of your own).

She also said it wasn’t impossible to score well with it, but that it was far more difficult to present a unique and deep analysis of it since so much was already ‘there’.