AP Lit and Comp Resources

http://www.mymaxscore.com/images/stories/docs/MMS_EnglishLit_PracTest.pdf

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/212187.html

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/courses/teachers_corner/17306.html

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_tips/4053.html

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/Eng_Lit_SF_Reading_Poetry07.pdf

Brave New World Essay Revision

BNW Ch9-10

-Lenina is disgusted by the reservation
-Lenina takes a lot of soma
-Bernard talks to world controller who believes that John and Linda are a scientific interest to the world state and agree to release them into the care of Bernard and Lenina
-John is scared Bernard and Lenina left without him so he busts into their house and finds Lenina incapacitated
-John wants to touch her but thinks he will defile her if he does

-director wants to dismiss Bernard as an example because he feels he threatens stability
-when Bernard arrives with Linda and John, Linda accuses the director of Irving her to have a baby and John falls to the director's feet
-the whole room is hysterical

March Lit Analysis

For my march lit analysis I am reading Lord of The Flies. I've read this book before and really enjoyed it so I want to reread it. This may seem like cheating, but I think that since I already know the plot it will greatly help me in picking out literary elements.

BNW Ch8

-John feels isolated because mother sleeps with so many guys and because the village never accepted him
-John reads "the complete works of Shakespeare" that voices his repressed emotions
-Bernard wants to take John to London so he can expose and embarrass the director as John's father
-John agrees only if he can take Linda with him
-on the reservation kinda is practically helpless this shows how dependent world state citizens are on civilization
-John absorbs both the culture on the reservation and the stories he heard from linda about the Other Place
-The Tempest and Brave New World are both stories of colonization. In each they separate and colonize the people from their native cultures and implant a new one. This makes it hard for them to rebel against their new culture

BNW Ch7

In this chapter Lenina witnesses a sacrifice in the reservation and appalled and disgusted. A boy (john) who wanted to be sacrificed approaches them and takes them to meet his mother Linda. It is noted that the father Tomakin is actually Thomas the director. John's background is told through flashbacks.

BNE Ch6

Bernard wishes to visit the reservation so he goes to the director to get a permit. While there the director tells a story about a girl whom he went there with but she gets lost and is never found. The director realizes that he has shared too much if his own personal life and even threatens to send Bernard to Iceland. Bernard is smug about this encounter until he finds out from the warden that the director actually plans to follow through with his threat.