AP English Literature and Composition Summer Reading List 2017 The two works for summer reading may be accessed on pdf or you may order the work . Please have BOTH works read by the first day of school. 1) The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (1990) Twenty-‐two vignettes that explore the author’s real-‐life experiences while serving in Viet Nam. This modern classic explores the literary genre known as “meta-‐fiction” in which the author actively comments on the process of writing. O’Brien effectively uses many narrative techniques to create verisimilitude(a feeling of reality within fiction) . Tim O’Brien uses the experiences of Alpha Company and its soldiers-‐-‐-‐Jimmy Cross, Norman Bowker, “Rat” Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Henry Dobbins, and Kiowa-‐-‐-‐ in order to explore the depths of the human condition amidst the in human scenarios of war. The Things They Carried extends far beyond being categorized simply as “war literature” due to the universality present in each story . The ground-‐breaking style of Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage (1895) is further modernized By Tim O’Brien. Crane developed the literary genres of realism and naturalism to better expound the experiences of Private Henry Fleming his American Civil War novel. 2) No Country for Old Men By Cormac McCarthy (2005) Our own era of history is explored through Lewellyn Moss’ life intersecting with the murderous and insanely methodical underworld of the Texas-‐Mexican border. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell attempts to confront the anarchy he encounters while tracking down Lewellyn and his pursuers with the same code of morality that had once served Sheriff Bell’s father in the past. Cormac McCarthy presents a world that is as grotesquely familiar as any television broadcast or newspaper’s contents are to any of us today. Sheriff Bell’s italicized stream of consciousness interludes function as a kind of psychological Greek chorus that serve to take the reader into the sheriff’s past, present , and future. No Country for Old Men takes a line from William Butler Yeats’ poem “Sailing to Byzantium”(1925) as its title. McCarthy is also thematically linked to the French philosopher and writer Albert Camus’ novel The Stranger (1942) which explores nihilism and existentialism in the modern world. 3) Please purchase “Cracking the AP English Literature and Composition Exam” The Princeton Review ISBN: 978-‐1-‐101-‐91 991-‐0 / ISSN: 1092-‐0099. This will provide a good overview for preparing and familiarizing yourself with the various sections of the AP English Literature test in May 2018.
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