Monday, May 2, 2011

My AP English Exam

Harding, Amy, and Algernon peer over my should while I take the test and add comments as they deem necessary.

(Following my first essay)

Harding: "Why this is incredible" (58)

Amy: "I can count on one finger the number of times this sort of thing has happened to me" (229)

Harding (In reference to my essay topic over psychoanalysis): "You have already simplified all the work of Freud, Jung, and Maxwell Jones and summed it up in one analogy" (58)

Amy: "Okay, and you're going to have to forgive me here, but I guess I'm going to need a little more explanation" (88)

Algernon (To Amy): "You look perfectly ridiculous" (30)

(The three glance over their shoulders and notice Schiferl working diligently behind me– they address him directly)

Harding: "I had judged from our encounter this morning that you [Sam] were more intelligent" (59)

Algernon: "Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?" (23)

Amy: "Irony is a luxury the doomed can't afford" (230)

Harding: "That's certainly a pleasant analogy, my friend" (58)

(They lose interest with his essay and turn back to my work)

Algernon: "I hope... I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of perfection" (38)

Amy: "You're not crazy" (224)

Harding: "Yes, you're becoming sly. Just like the rest of us" (193)

Amy: "It's exciting"




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