AP Great Gatsby Essay Writing Samples - Can You Write About Characters?

AP Great Gatsby Essay Writing Samples - Can You Write About Characters?The first time I read that little Johnny App sample AP Great Gatsby essay I did not believe the figures. I thought maybe some kid was being silly by claiming he could write about that story. But then I found it. And boy was I impressed!I am sure it is no coincidence that AP has chosen to use this story to demonstrate some of the best ways to use essay writing samples. There are a number of criteria they put forward for their writers. It is interesting that these criteria are used for some of the sample AP Great Gatsby essays but not others.One criterion that the AP writer seem to have in common is that they should choose to write about characters rather than situations. The writing in this AP Great Gatsby sample does appear to show that the writer was in a situation. The writer obviously chose to focus on a character. That was clearly the purpose of the sample essay and it has been used on AP websites and used in AP test preparation materials for years.It seems ironic that someone who wrote a great AP Great Gatsby essay would choose to choose a situation. But here we are. To illustrate that the examples of good writing can be achieved when using a situation, we have the next two AP Great Gatsby sample essays. In one the writer does not even use a first person limited, while in the other it is a first person limited essay.When using a situation to tell a story the screenwriter's style is often referred to as the 'Three Act' structure and this is a term that writers have always understood. In the case of the AP Great Gatsby sample essay it is interesting to note that in this example it is said the screenwriter uses three acts and that the scenes are not shown all at once.So when is the 'famous scene' described? Well, it is never named in the essay, so you will have to trust your imagination. But let's say you read the passage on page 198 where it says that the scene of the 'wedding scene' begi ns. Well, that would be the wedding scene, right?Of course it does not say that, it merely says that the scene is 'the scene you will see'. Of course it is not quite like that because the scenes that are shown, although it is 'known' what each scene is, there are several sections in between the scenes that the reader will never see and they are not described.In both the AP Great Gatsby essay and the next example it is a first person limited essay. While the first sample essay with a first person limited by the choice of which character to describe and which character to leave out. While the second sample essay does in fact show the scene of the 'Wedding Scene' with the scene being told in the first person limited.