Brave New World

Palestinian American literary theorist and cultural critic Edward Said has written that “Exile is strangely compelling

to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place,

between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” Yet Said has also said that exile

can become “a potent, even enriching” experience.

Select a novel, play, or epic in which a character experiences such a rift and becomes cut off from “home,” whether

that home is the character’s birthplace, family, homeland, or other special place. Then write an essay in which you

analyze how the character’s experience with exile is both alienating and enriching, and how this experience

illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole. You may choose a work from the list below or one of comparable

literary merit. Do not merely summarize the plot.

My plan would first be to develop a list that displays the main characters of brave new world and from there differentiate which character has more experience relating to the AP topic. I would organize it in such a way that the there would be 2-4 body paragraphs. The first paragraph would be to describe and compare the alienation. The second paragraph would be to explain the benefits and didactics of the alienation. The third paragraph would be analyzing the whole process and what the "higher" meaning is. I would then start to write and continue until i get writers block.