AP English - Culture Shock Prompt

Respond to the following AP prompt was taken from the 2003 exam. Focus on analyzing the
character and novel as insightfully and significantly as possible. Do not be overly concerned
with trying to write five paragraphs; it is more important to write four full and thoroughly
commented paragraphs. Be sure to include specific details, meaningful and thorough
commentary, and clear, focused topics for the body paragraphs. Your response needs to be
consistently meaningful and insightful.
Novels and plays often depict characters caught between colliding cultures -- national, regional,
ethnic, religious, institutional. Such collisions can call a character's sense of identity into
question. Select a novel or play in which a character responds to such a cultural collision. Then
write a well-organized essay in which you describe the character's response and explain its
relevance to the work as a whole.