Monday, May 2, 2011

A Voice, A Chief, and a Butler Walk into a Bar…

Narrator: The omniscient narrator, Chief Bromden, and Lane enter the AP English testing room.  They see me sitting near the front of the room, deeply concentrating on the booklet in front of me.  Feeling sympathy for my struggle, they decide to discuss the best advice to give me to ensure I do well on the essay portion of the exam:
Voice:  “First, enjoy this time!” (Currie 1)
Bromden: “It’s the truth even if it didn’t happen!” (Kesey 8)
Narrator: Both look at Lane, expecting his advice
Lane: “I didn’t think it polite to listen…” (Wilde 1)
V: sighing “You fall short, inevitably, inevitably” (Currie 178)
L: “Yes, sir” (Wilde 1)
B: angrily  “It’s started…” (Kesey 107)
V: threateningly, towards Lane “The choice is, in the end, yours” (Currie 3)
L: even fiercer “I don’t know that I am much interested in your… life!” (Wilde 2)
Narrator: The two begin brawling, causing quite the distraction to those attempting to write killer, 9-worthy essays.  The police are phoned, and by the time they arrive, the two individuals have taken their fight out to the hallway, much to the relief of the testers
B: pointing out the door, obviously annoyed.  He is apparently quite used to this type of drama between the pair “They’re out there” (Kesey 3)
Narrator: Both are arrested and taken off in handcuffs.  
B: "Who gets poisoned with what tonight?" (Kesey 82)
Narrator: The diligent students continue to write life changing, inspiring essays, all destined to get 5s on the exam, while Bromden continues to observe from the back, attempting to think of any helpful writing advice to fix the mess he helped to cause.

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