AP English Literature Exam Reading Days Five & Six: "Increadible"

Yesterday, in my haste to put as much distance as possible between myself and the worst writing in the world at the end of the day, I accidentally left my list of abominations (I mean 'insights') to share on the table. So today you get a double dose--enjoy it while you can! Only one more day of reading left!

"The play in which I feel is most beneficial to the question is that of the novel 'Frankenstein.'"

"Mr. Collins is everything Prince Charming is not."

"Mr. Gatsby lives in a neighboring egg."

"Love concurs all."

"I think 'Hamlet' would not have been as good if Hamlet just mowed down Claudius with a couple of uzis in the beginning of the second act."

"The meaning of a work is sometimes more subtle unless it is brought to light by something else."

"Dr. Frankenstein is really the one who started it."

"'Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles is a dramatic irony."

"Because Jocasta defied the prophet and disrespected the gods she was bound to have karma boomerang back at her."

"Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' is a novel that offers characters of foil."

"Have a delicious day!"

"Life in the concentration camp was not a walk in the park."

"It caused Hamlet to go crazy and over-kill Claudius."

"Mr. Darcy is immediately hated for his failure to jump on any girls at the ball."

"A being that was not in a womb of a woman has more feelings than a being that was in a womb."

"Hello...my name is Inago Montoya, you killed my father prepare to die."

"Good people can still have the wrong idea."

"She wears revealing oprah dresses." (This one took me a second...what is Oprah doing in an essay on 'Age of Innocence'? That would be "opera.")

"Blanche is a pedophiliac sexual entity."

"God was at that time a man."

"She was only like 15."

"It takes one to know one."

"I will write this essay using the book 'No Country For Old Men,' which my English teacher says is a book of literary merit."

"He has various moments where his IQ drops below 40 and makes you want to slap him." (I can certainly sympathize.)