This too I shall pass....

I came, and hopefully conquered. We have finally made it to the end of this 20 something odd chapter novel that is my blog. AP Literature was not easy I struggled in staying on top of my work and time management, which seems to always be my struggle whenever I seem to be falling behind in a class, but it I feel as though it definitely helped me in preparing me for the AP exam. I really didn't like the Ap exam because it's so hard reading the passages in the multiple choice because they just seem so complex and they don't really make any sense. The questions they ask go from easy to hard and the hard ones were sometimes just as confusing as the passage. But overall the multiple choice went fairly well. The essays, which we have spent the entire year on, in hopes of grades above a five, were interesting to say the least. Normally when we look at poems there is some specific hidden idea that we look for; some type of journey, loss of innocence, or growth, I didn't really see that in this specific poem all I saw was a actual object that represented the past and the debate between holding on to the past and letting go of it, which I guess would sort of be the hidden meaning, but because of what we have learned in Lit all year I just felt that there was something more that I needed to have seen and I didn't. Literature has taught me to really look within the poem for what the poet is really trying to say about everyday life, and I just know there was more in this poem then holding on to the past life. With the prose piece I was able to comprehend what the author was saying about the women's situation and what she wanted to do with her life, but it just seemed so in your face about her situation and the kind of women that she is, that, once again, you thought there needed to be more. I talked about the symbolism of the vicar and the differences between the vicar and her husband and how that characterized the woman, but when we write prose essays in class we always have to go deeper in order to receive a better grade.It separates the 5 or 6 from a 7 or 8. With the free response I wrote about Emma and Box Hill because that is a pivotal moment, where she starts to do more introspection. It worked out really well because we spent a lot of time talking about Emma, in class. All in All I think AP Lit has definitely helped me on the exam.We're aiming for a 4