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My prompt was about character’s displaying lack of self-understanding and I wrote about The Catcher in The Rye.

It’s in one week and I’m really stressing. I skimmed through The Great Gatsby when we read it in class, but I’m going to reread in depth before the exam. I’m going to reread Death of A Salesman and possibly The Catcher In The Rye, I read Hamlet in class and liked it, but I did bad on my in class essay over it (3.75/6) The only books I really liked and understood were Nickel Boys, Wit, and The Miseducation of Cameron Post (which was an independent read)

I’m not a super strong writer and I’m so scared the prompt will be confusing or won’t relate to a book I have ever read. I was doing a practice prompt thing and it was something about a character who strategically hides something about themselves to the reader and I genuinely don’t know what I would ever do if I were faced with that. I also didn’t know what to do when I saw a practice prompt about an object that is meaningful because my dumbass did NOT comprehend The Great Gatsby at all.

Should I reread books I read last year like A Midsummer’s Night Dream, A Separate Peace and Fahrenheit 451 because I remember understanding and caring about them more.

Also how do you even prep a book like maybe I am an idiot, but I just don’t know how to know evidence and stuff. It’s so stressful too because I’m prepping for other exams (AP Gov, AP Pysch, AP Calc Bc) and I just don’t know what to do.