This page is to showcase many of my best pieces I wrote in AP Literature and Composition this year.
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Foster is Watching YouThis paper was an application of Foster's literature theories from his book How to Read Literature Like a Professor to a piece of literature. I chose to apply a few of his theories to George Orwell's 1984. I used Foster's theories on weather, vampirism, baptism, and political writing to analyze 1984.
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Book Thief Summer Essay
This is my Book Thief Essay from the summer before starting AP Lit. This essay displays how clueless I was about the idea of analyzing, although I did hit a few good analysis points almost on accident.
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Apostrophe PoemThis poem is about all the different types of handshakes that people give. It is modeled after another poem with the same format that we read in class.
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Two-Faced FriendshipThis paper is a personal narrative that is about a broken friendship. Writing this paper, I learned to use different storytelling techniques when writing a narrative.
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Johnny Got His Gun AP EssayIn preparation for the AP test Essay section, I re-wrote an AP Essay that I already wrote. I used all the techniques that we learned in class to make my essay good enough to get a 9.
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Cuckoo's Nest Movie ReviewThis is a movie review for the 1975 adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. This review analyzed what the movie did right, like showing themes, and some of what it did wrong.
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Dante's Inferno Baseball CardsThese are the baseball cards that I made for Dante's Inferno. I made cards for important and memorable characters in Inferno, and I also made cards from other mythology in literature.
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