2010 AP® ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS
Question 3
(Suggested time—40 minutes. This question counts as one-third of the total essay section score.)
Palestinian American literary theorist and cultural critic Edward Said has written that “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” Yet Said has also said that exile can become “a potent, even enriching” experience.
Select a novel, play, or epic in which a character experiences such a rift and becomes cut off from “home,” whether that home is the character’s birthplace, family, homeland, or other special place.
Then write an essay in which you analyze how the character’s experience with exile is both alienating and enriching, and how this experience illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole. You may choose a work from the list below or one of comparable literary merit. Do not merely summarize the plot.
(Suggested time—40 minutes. This question counts as one-third of the total essay section score.)
Palestinian American literary theorist and cultural critic Edward Said has written that “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” Yet Said has also said that exile can become “a potent, even enriching” experience.
Select a novel, play, or epic in which a character experiences such a rift and becomes cut off from “home,” whether that home is the character’s birthplace, family, homeland, or other special place.
Then write an essay in which you analyze how the character’s experience with exile is both alienating and enriching, and how this experience illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole. You may choose a work from the list below or one of comparable literary merit. Do not merely summarize the plot.
The American
Angle of Repose Another Country
As You Like It
Brave New World Crime and Punishment Doctor Zhivago
Heart of Darkness Invisible Man Jane Eyre Jasmine
Jude the Obscure
King Lear
The Little Foxes
Madame Bovary
The Mayor of Casterbridge My Ántonia
Angle of Repose Another Country
As You Like It
Brave New World Crime and Punishment Doctor Zhivago
Heart of Darkness Invisible Man Jane Eyre Jasmine
Jude the Obscure
King Lear
The Little Foxes
Madame Bovary
The Mayor of Casterbridge My Ántonia
Obasan
The Odyssey
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich The Other
Paradise Lost
The Poisonwood Bible
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Road
Robinson Crusoe
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Sister Carrie
Sister of My Heart
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Tempest
Things Fall Apart
The Women of Brewster Place Wuthering Heights
Source: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap10_frq_eng_lit.pdf
Bernard Marx is perfect character to use for this prompt about how exile can be alienating and enriching.
The Odyssey
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich The Other
Paradise Lost
The Poisonwood Bible
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Road
Robinson Crusoe
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Sister Carrie
Sister of My Heart
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Tempest
Things Fall Apart
The Women of Brewster Place Wuthering Heights
Source: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap10_frq_eng_lit.pdf
Bernard Marx is perfect character to use for this prompt about how exile can be alienating and enriching.
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