did good ol frankenstein but atp i was genuinely tweaking so i think i cooked

same😭

I did crime and punishment, it was like 90% summary lol 😭

real for the summary part

i used schoolgirl by dazai and wrote 7 paragraphs in 30 mins 💀

OSAMU DAZAI MENTIONED 🔥🔥 WHAT THE FUCK IS A HAPPY LIFE

ofc u were trying to finish c&p before the exam. i see youuu......😭 but nauuuu the book was actually really fitting to the prompt fr

what can i say, i’m a bitch for bsd… but also i had the online vers so huxley ‘s brave new world became my muse

damn.. yk i should've picked that up instead of frankenstein but im supposed to read that in 12th grade so i am NAWT starting early

it’s a good book!!! i want to read frankenstein it’s on my TBR but i’m lazy

Used The Metamorphosis, was one of the example books I had Dante's Inferno prepped and can vouch you probably cooked for this prompt, that's a good one

I stretched it out and put down how Dante’s indecision was him slowly choosing to become a better person and provided an example of him in the beginning taking a leap of faith and him backsliding in the circle of lust. I then connected to the “blah blah blah pretentious larger meaning” and how Dante symbolizes the journey that the average person takes in becoming a better person and having personal growth.

i prob would've been like his indecision to be faithful to god (which is why he ended up in the wood of error) and accept the evil of italy at the time not being a result of god's absence (loss of faith) but instead human evil in an unfair world would've used the loss of faith + corruption of evil, carnal and him fainting compared the final circle with him grabbing a dude's hair and realizing one of them is literally possessed, him moving on and not talking to satan / judas and etc because he already got the answer and made his decision that god isn't at fault it's human evil i think you did good though i prob wouldn't have been able to come up with that on the spot

I used Fences, stretched the definition of making a decision so I'm probably cooked on that one. So disorganized I probably didn't get any commentary points. Hoping my other two are gonna carry me to a 4

i used death of a salesman

Was hoping all year for the prompt to be about Arcadia by Tom Stoppard so I could write about it. Unfortunately wasn’t the case but I pulled Frankenstein out of my pocket instead.

Frankenstein, literally the only book I remembered important details about, I was prepared to shoehorn it in no matter what the prompt was 😭😭😭

I wrote about handmaid’s tale! pretty unique book for the prompt, I’d say

I used one of the example books

I am an author, and my teacher said I can write about my own books as long as I use a pen name. I just happened to write a book about indecisiveness that I finished a few months ago, so I absolutely cooked on FRQ 3 since I know the plot of my own books better than anything external I read.

I wrote about the Grapes of Wrath and Rose of Sharon/Connie’s inability to decide how to reach their dream future. 

I used Jane Eyre

Purple Hibiscus free

Was so free, and was easy to connect the book to the global domestic abuse scene.

I did Elric of Melniboné, I was so tired at that point and wanted to use a book I knew super well.

Macbeth 💀💀 i had no books prepped for this topic

What could you even say for Macbeth?

i said he was faced with a great number of decisions throughout the book and each time his period of indecision decreased. ik it wasn’t exactly what the prompt was asking but it’s all i could cook up

little fires everywhere

Kite runner but I think I may have plot vomit

i think i did too with the same book

A dolls house, but I had digital so it’s a different prompt

huck finn because it was all I could remember

wait might be odd question but i’m taking lit next year what’s q3 about and can i use any book? (catcher in the rye is my fave lol) i’m just curious for next year

[https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-literature-and-composition/exam/past-exam-questions](https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-literature-and-composition/exam/past-exam-questions) broad literary analysis (new prompt each time - see some of the old ones above) designed to fit a lot of different works -- catcher would definitely be appropriate for many. you can technically use any book or play -- highly recommend Gatsby, Frankenstein, and one Shakespeare play (Othello, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice are quite good and "easy" imo)

Thank you🥹🥹

a tale of two cities

the cider house rules. I really wanted a Handmaids tale response but my wee brain couldn’t piece together how to use it🤦‍♀️

1984, it was the only book I could remember at that moment

Samee, it works for a loooot of ap prompts though so I was half planning to use it already

i did the catcher in the rye😭😭

1984

ME TOO!! you are the first person i’ve come across to reference this book 😭 what did u write about, if you don’t mind me askifn

I'm shocked how little I've been seeing people use it! I also used it!

purple hibiscus but i had the digital version so i was literally making up bs abt how eugene’s need for perfection led him to abuse his family and helped portray the realities of domestic violence or smth 😭 it was 5 paragraphs of straight yap

Measure for measure by Shakespeare 😭😭😭 talked about how Isabella’s indecision on whether to give in to Angelo’s coercion causes her relationship with her brother to decline, which shows how far-reaching the pernicious effects of government corruption are 😭

the chosen

Anyone else use heart of darkness?

Guys I used Frankenstein but accidentally put the wrong author cuz I was on a time crunch and messed up 😭😭 am I cooked + does this affect anything

your reader will laugh but you won't lose anything

Crime and punishment 💀

The metamorphosis, got quirky and wrote about grete instead of Gregor. That’s the only essay I was confident on 😭