For AP Language and Composition, I was required to read 3 books during the summer. Two, Seabiscuit and Heart of Darkness, were required, while one, Sense and Sensibility, I chose. Reading for an AP course should be something which causes students to not only read, but to think about what they are reading. The story should engage their minds ... and analyzation, a large component of any AP English course. It is also important that students be exposed to different styles of writing. Seabiscuit was written in a simple biographical format, and Sense and Sensibility was written in the style of mo...

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... would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives - he called them ... ! - hidden out of sight somewhere."" (p 20) We can see that Marlow is beginning to realize that what seems normal in Europe doesn't make sense in Africa and vice versa. He says that sometimes he felt as if he didn't belong "to a world of straight-forward facts-(p 20). He ....

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