Since I’m a freshman, I’ve decided to apply to sophomore English honors at my school. I have to work this weekend to write an essay in order to apply, but I’m still not sure what to write about. There are choices to choose from, but I tend to overthink the decision making process too much. Which is probably why I’ve never been a good test taker.
I pretty much have to choose one of three quotes given (“All conflict in literature is, in its simplest form, a struggle between good and evil…”). I still haven’t decided yet, so instead, I began to write a post here. I may procrastinate, but I do other things to fill in for the time wasted.
I have to mention two works of literature in my essay. I’m trying not to sound snobby, but I consider myself well read for my age group. I mean, not a lot of fifteen fourteen year-olds will tell you, “Oh, I love Thomas Hardy! Tess of the d’Urbervilles just broke my heart when I read it!” or even “That Raymond Carver is a great prose writer, you know? I think if I were to choose between my favorite short story authors, I’d have a draw between Carver and Salinger -who, I, by the way, don’t appreciate simply because he wrote The Catcher In The Rye.”
Okay, I sound like the middle line of pretentious and stupid, but I think that’s something that tends to happen when you blog about yourself. But anyway, I think I can nail the literary references part of the essay -which is a good amount of it. I may or may not get in, though. Yours truly believes in the latter.
