2006 AP English Literature and Composition Free-Response Question 3
In many works of literature, a physical journey—the literal movement from one place to another—plays a central role. Choose a novel, play, or epic poem in which a physical journey is an important element and discuss how the journey adds to the meaning of the work as a whole. You may write your essay on one of the following works or on another of comparable quality. Avoid mere plot summary.
Question 1a
Essay
Write an essay discussing how a physical journey adds to the meaning of a work of literature. You may choose from the following works: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Aeneid, All the Pretty Horses, As I Lay Dying, Candide, The Canterbury Tales, Cold Mountain, The Divine Comedy, Dutchman, Going After Cacciato, Gulliver’s Travels, Heart of Darkness, The Importance of Being Earnest, Light in August, Middle Passage, Moby-Dick, Mother Courage, Obasan, The Odyssey, Peer Gynt, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Song of Solomon, or another work of comparable quality.
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