<p>Let’s try to find at least five books that have versatile themes and examples that can pretty much be adapted to every SAT prompt.</p>
<p>1984, for example, looks like an obvious choice (oppression, dishonesty, deception, weak vs. strong, etc.)</p>
<p>What else would you include?</p>
<p>i prefer historical examples</p>
<p>for example, Napoleon ( success, taking risks, deception )</p>
<p>You might also choose some african-american person who fought against slavery and segregation (Rosa Parks: bravery, desire for change, sacrifice)(Martin Luther King)</p>
<p>Marie Antoinette (materialism)</p>
<p>Ghandhi (change, bravery, wisdom)</p>
<p>I don’t know any other uncommonly used historical examples.</p>
<p>any ideas?</p>
<p>Canada’s 15th Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau… You can easily adapt his story and then bul**** if you need too… I doubt many essay markers have a good sense of Canadian history!</p>
<p>American Drug Lord Frank Lucas - Easy to bs about… watch the movie american gangster then wikipedia lucas and get some furthur facts to show that you have a greater understanding of him (when he was incarcerated, the real name of bumpy johnson, etc.)</p>
<p>I like the play Death of a Salesma, I’ve used it every time. Shakespears Othello isnt bad either. </p>
<p>Also if you know sports, figure out some good sports stories to relate. Josh Hamilton, Warrick Dunn, Michael Oher… alll pretty strong adaptable stories…</p>
<p>Did you ever make up a name for a novel and BSed about it? Did you get a score above 10?</p>
<p>Macbeth is pretty trite, but applies to alot of things.So what’s special about Trudeau? He didnt do much, except attract women and introduce the war measures act.</p>
<p>Books:
Lord of the flies
Glass menagerie
The little prince
Animals farm
The catcher in the rye</p>
<p>If I feel like adding some current fiction so : Harry potter (used it once, with mudblood to demonstrate “racism”) and The chronicles of Narnia ( used it to explain how believe helps people to endure , with Aslan and the withe witch)</p>
<p>are my top 5 books</p>
<p>As for History
I use Israel History and Holocaust (I use my grandmother stories) and the well known US history.</p>
<p>with Trudeau you can talk about how he handled the FLQ crises and that crap, the referendums are huge, he promoted federalism instead of seperation even though he grew up in a seperatist society. advocated the rights for francophones (individual rights). lived ostentatiously so you can make some stuff up about that… captured the canadian public through some propaganda… how he “learned” so much from studying overseas and whatnot… i dunno being from canada we learned alot about him and alot of americans don’t have a strong idea on the stuff he did so all the referendum flq etc. can be bent a bit to fit to your topic… he was PM from 68-29 and 80-84… theres alot he had done</p>
<p>I always use the grapes of wrath. I like to throw in a current event/ personal experience too, but that depends on the topic.</p>
<ul>
<li>Scarlett Letter</li>
<li>The Great Gatsby</li>
<li>Jane Eyre</li>
<li>Snow Falling on Cedars</li>
<li>L’etranger (the stranger) - it’s a french book</li>
</ul>
<p>The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, The Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird, these are the most famous and most used examples.</p>