May 5, 2011: As students settle into their assigned seats for the AP English Literature and Composition Exam, Ashima, Lane and Iago unload from a white panel van and peer into the frosted windows of the Rec Center.
Ashima: '"What’s taking so long?"' (Lahiri 290)
Lane: "I didn’t think it polite to [watch or] listen" (Wilde 1).
Ashima: '"[She] doesn’t speak much of anything, at the moment"' (Lahiri 45).
The students begin the AP Exam and Ashima and Iago focus intently on Emily’s attitude and performance. Lane, a bit reserved, stands back a few feet.
Iago: "I see this hath a little dashed [her] sprits" (Shakespeare 3.3.13).
Lane: "I attribute it to the superior quality of the [test], sir" (Wilde 1).
Iago: "Quick, quick! [She] fear[s] nothing" (Shakespeare 5.1.3).
Lane: "I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir" (Wilde 1).
Iago: "She is of/so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition she/holds it… in her goodness… to do more than/she is requested" (Shakespeare 2.3.319-322).
Ashima: '"This is no time for books"' (Lahiri 290).
Iago: "What you know, you know" (Shakespeare 5.2.299).
Lane: "Yes, sir" (Wilde 1)
Iago: "O, that’s well said" (Shakespeare 5.1.98).
Lane: "Thank you, sir" (Wilde 2).
Iago: "For sure [she] fills it up with great ability" (Shakespeare 3.3.247).
Ashima: "'Next year at this time [she’ll] be so far away"' (Lahiri 287).
Iago: "Ay, there’s the point" (Shakespeare 3.3.228).
Ashima [as the test concludes]: '"Now [she] will be on [her] own"' (Lahiri 147).
Emily, I found this post very funny. I like the way you describe the setting, it really adds to the humor and displays the characters attitudes well.
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ReplyDeleteI really liked this entry and it also actually made me feel a lot less stressed out about the AP exam which is approaching rapidly. When Ashima says, "Next year at this time [she’ll] be so far away" it made me realize that it’s going to be rough when we are taking it, but once it is over we can relax and won’t think about it until mid summer when we get the scores. It also made me realize how next year we'll be at college and that freaked me out. Good work!!