1. ap literature: Oer Project
By: Tavian Young & Jaylen Shands

2. Prompt One:
2004, form B – The most important themes in literature are sometimes developed in scenes in which a death or deaths take place. Choose an novel or play and write a well-organized essay in which you show how a specific death scene helps illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary.

3. Little Question
The prompt asks the reader to analyze certain death scenes within a piece of literature that provide a crucial aspect to the main plot and strengthen the meaning of the work as a whole.

4. Big question
The prompt asks us to analyze this element of literature to highlight different authors' use of death within literature to show his/her readers the consequences of not following the theme set in the story by the author. 

5. Literary examples The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 
We will be using The Great Gatsby as an example

6. Introductory paragraph
In author F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby" the reader follows nick, the new next door neighbor to Gatsby, a very wealthy man who is deeply enamored with the concept of loving a woman named Daisy whom he had met in Louisville, Kentucky. Towards the end of the novel, Gatsby was shot by George, under the accusation that he had killed his wife, Myrtle, when in truth she was ran over by Daisy. This event shows the dangers of living a life that revolves around social status, appearance and greed that comes with immense wealth.  

7. Essay organization
We would organize the paragraphs in the essay in chronological order in order to clearly present the events leading up to Gatsby's death and show how they tie into the theme presented in the introductory paragraph.
Some evidence we would use for the essay would be Tom, who had an affair with Myrtle, Gatsby's association with Meyer Wolfsheim, which suggests Gatsby is associated with more sinister means of profit, and Daisy's friend, Jordan who cheated to win her first golf tournament.
To end the essay we would restate the thesis and briefly tie all the evidence presented in the body paragraphs back to the thesis.  

8. Prompt two
2003, Form B. Novels and plays often depict characters caught between colliding cultures - national, regional, ethnic, religious, institutional. Such collisions can call a character’s sense of identity into question. Select a novel or play in which a character responds to such a cultural collision. Then write a well-organized essay in which you describe the character’s response and explain its relevance to the work as a whole.

9. Little question
The prompt here asks us to identify and analyze characters in a work of fiction whose cultures clash with each other, analyze both characters response to the culture clash, and explain how this clash ties back into the work as a whole. 

10. Big Question
From the given prompt, we are given elements that identify and analyze characters in a work of fiction whose cultures clash with each other. Coming from these certain collisions, which puts the characters identity into question, it is critical to examine the full, in-depth response of the characters and how these specific examinations will help lead to the characters concise relevance to the prompt.

11. Literary examples: George Orwell‘s 1984 Animal Farm by George Orwell
Night by Elie Wiesel
The example we will be using is Night by Elie Wiesel.

12. Introductory Paragraph
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War. The culture that Wiesel addresses in his narrative is the Jewish culture.  This particular culture was targeted by Hitler and the Nazis during the Holocaust. The cultural collision between the Jews and the Nazis drastically affects Wiesel and his father because they were forced to be put into the concentration camp without notice or warning.Thus, causing him to write his response, “Night”, as the devastating uses of torment proceed within Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

13. Essay Organization
We would organize the paragraphs in the essay by specific topics relating to the pieces of evidence that we provided within the introductory paragraph.
We can support our thesis by retrieving evidence from our introductory paragraph and specific examples from the book. For instance, Elie Wiesel and his father watched Juliek (a violinist) die from abusive Nazis while he is playing a Jewish song.
To end the essay we would restate the thesis and briefly tie all the evidence presented in the body paragraphs back to the thesis.  

14. The end.