HELP! AP lit: Heart of Darkness

Lima
Thu, 07 May 2009 22:19:07 +0000

i think anyone taking the AP Lit test should at least have read Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, and Crime and Punishment. don’t really need anything else.



Yes, because that sums up literature for the past 1000 years…

Also, you’re not supposed to write essays about Gatsby because everyone has done them. On the AP, that is. And none of those is from before 1860, and none of them is written in a particularly challenging style (well, C & P is, but it’s so unique you couldn’t use it as an example of “x”) like stream of consciousness. Also, all male protagonists. What happens when you have to write about a girl, poetry, or existentialism?

…Suck it up and read the hard books. Read them twice. Ask questions of them. Read them again. Eventually, you’ll “get” them and enjoy them.

(English Literature Nerd signing off)

(PS. Technically C&P isn’t “english literature”, and thus, while it has merit in a course like this, should not be the sole focus.)