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AP or Nay-P? It's no secret that Margaret Atwood, the author or Oryx and Crake , is a remarkable author. She's become one of my favorite authors thanks to Ms. LaClair after reading The Handmaid's Tale in class and I've been dying to read some more of her work. The way she toys around with different themes, literary devices, and writing styles is, to put it simply, incredible.  Before discussing why this book is considered AP worthy, we must first know the requirements of an AP worthy book. I used an outside source to conclude what makes a book AP worthy and summarized it.  In order to be AP worthy:   The book must endure through time The book must contain complexities, tensions, ambiguities, and/or emotional depth The book must speak to important, challenging, or relevant real-world issues Lastly, the book must have a certain high quality in its writing style - imagery, motifs, allusions, tone, foreshadowing, theme, etc., the author should be using their high qualit...

A Sweet Chat about Style Margaret Atwood has a unique sense of style in terms of writing, after reading her book The Handmaid's Tale, her novel Oryx and Crake is just another example of that. The book bounces in and out of flashbacks and the present, leaving the reader with questions that may or may not be answered in the following chapters. The book is told through an omniscient third person point of view which fills in the blanks of the story. Atwood uses a very cynical tone throughout the book. When considering the circumstances, this makes sense due to life being completely uprooted by disease, leaving the survivors with practically nothing. Her cynical tone is accompanied by sophisticated word choice and imagery in her work.  Something I've noticed throughout the book is how much sex and genitals are mentioned. You can imagine my surprise when I was only forty-one pages into the book and read the word “big butt” and the inappropriate string of words that followed (41). In ...