AP Lang Final Exam 2021

Learning to Read

(Education) - Malcolm X was locked up in prison, but was able to find a great deal of freedom while being engrossed in a book - gained an education while in prison - educated himself only based on his interests - became increasingly frustrated. at not being able to express what I wanted to convey in letters that I wrote, especially those to Mr. Elijah Muhammad. - I saw that the best thing I could do was get hold of a dictionary - to study, to learn some words. I was lucky enough to reason also that I should try to improve my penmanship. - Actually the dictionary is like a miniature encyclopedia. - he discusses a narrative of his path to self-education through the remembrance of moments in his life while being incarcerated. His motivation arises from wanting to interact with Mr. Elijah Muhammad; the leader of Islam. Through self- education, he discovers the tensions in race relations and the unfair treatments that African Americans endure in the hands of the mainstream American society. In the end, X clarifies that reading foster success. - The teachings of Mr. Muhammad stressed how history had been "whitened" - when white men had written history books, the black man simply had been left out. Mr. Muhammad couldn't have said anything that would have struck me much harder. - I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. SETTING: Charleston State Prison, SC Norfolk Prison Colony's library

I Just Wanna Be Average

(Education) - society very often neglects and doesn't see the full value and potential of students. As a student you're not the only that is frustrated. - the author´s placement tests for Our Lady of Mercy school were mixed up with another student with the same last name Rose, so the author was mistakenly placed into the vocational track or the bottom level in school - The vocational track at Our Lady of Mercy mixed kids traveling in from South L.A. with South Bay surfers and a few Slavs and Chicanos from the harbors of San Pedro. - Students will float to the mark you set - The vocational track, however, is most often a place for those who are just not making it, a dumping ground for the disaffected. There were a few teachers who worked hard at education - But mostly the teachers had no idea of how to engage the imaginations of us kids who were scuttling along at the bottom of the pond. - but that I had developed various faulty and inadequate ways of doing algebra and making sense of Spanish. Worse yet, the years of defensive tuning out in elementary school had given me a way to escape quickly while seeming at least half alert. During my time in Voc. Ed., I developed further into a mediocre student and a somnambulant problem solver, and that affected the subjects I did have the wherewithal to handle - But I did learn things about people and eventually came into my own socially. - We were talking about the parable of the talents, about achievement, working hard, doing the best you can do, blah-blah-blah, when the teacher called on the restive Ken Harvey for an opinion. Ken thought about it, but just for a second, and said (with studied, minimal affect), "I just wanna be average." - School can be a tremendously disorienting place. No matter how bad the school, you're going to encounter notions that don't fit with the assumptions and beliefs that you grew up with - maybe you'll hear these dissonant notions from teachers, maybe from the other students, and maybe you'll read them. You'll also be thrown in with all kinds of kids from all kinds of backgrounds, and that can be unsettling - this is especially true in places of rich ethnic and linguistic mix, like the L.A. basin - Brother Clint puzzled over this Voc. Ed. kid who was racking up 98s and 99s on his tests. He checked the school's records and discovered the error. He recommended that I begin my junior year in the College Prep program. - Switching to College Prep was a mixed blessing - Through this entire period, my father's health was deteriorating with cruel momentum - While it's certainly true that we've created an educational system that encourages our best and brightest to become cynical grade collectors and, in general, have developed an obsession with evaluation and assessment, I must tell you that venal though it may have been, I loved getting good grades from MacFarland. SETTING: OUR LADY OF MERCY SCHOOL (VOC ED)

Still Separate, Still Unequal

(Education) - the continuous segregation and inequality of black and Hispanic children from white children in the United States even after segregation was ruled unconstitutional. - current racial segregation in American schools 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education - how deeply isolated children in the poorest and most segregated sections of these cities have become - One of the most disheartening experiences for those who grew up in the years when Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall were alive is to visit public schools today that bear their names, or names of other honored leaders of the integration struggles that produced the temporary progress that took place in the three decades after Brown v. Board of Education, and to find out how many of these schools are bastions of contemporary segregation - "It's as if you have been put in a garage where, if they don't have room for something but aren't sure if they should throw it out, they put it there where they don't need to think of it again." - to settle for the promise made more than a century ago in Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court ruling in which "separate but equal" was accepted as a tolerable rationale for the per~ petuation of a dual system in American society. - "This," he told me, pointing to the garbage bag, then gesturing around him at the other indications of decay and disrepair one sees in ghetto schools much like it elsewhere, "would not happen to white children." - The introduction of Skinnerian approaches (which are commonly employed in penal institutions and drug-rehabilitation programs), as a way of altering the attitudes and learning styles of black and Hispanic children, is provocative, and it has stirred some outcries from respected scholars. - eyes up tractor beams - You have to do what children do and breathe the air the children breathe. Tdon't think that there is any other way to find out what the lives that children lead in school are really like. - "You're ghetto," said Fortino, "so we send you to the factory." He sat low in his desk chair, leaning on one elbow, his voice and dark eyes loaded with a cynical intelligence. "You're ghetto-so you sew! SETTING: Public schools in NY

Two Way a Woman Can Get Hurt

(Gender) - ads objectify women´s bodies and normalize ways of sexual aggression - sexist advertising - male violence is encouraged by these ads - value sexual intimacy over emotional intimacy - ridicules men who are not in control of their women - ads encourage women to be attracted to hostile and indifferent men - encourages boys to become these men - some people embrace the night because the rules of the day do not apply - sexual assault is magnified with alcohol consumption (date rape) - women are shammed for unplanned pregnancies or rapes - we become numb to these images - one of the biggest problems for women is to just survive at home - turning a human being into a thing is the first step of justifying violence against them - nude women with clothed men - The Diet Coke ad with women and construction worker is funny because it does not describe any truth - Cindy Crawford Diet Coke commercial - when everything and everyone is sexualized, it is the powerless who are most at risk - murder of JonBenet Ramsey - when a man is being objectified by a women he is not in danger - sexual abuse victims are more likely to engage in substance abuse and self destructive behavior - female homeless people and prisoners are often victims of male violence SETTING:

The Manliness of Men

(Gender) - manliness will probably become less necessary as more nations are advancing towards democracy and peace - democratic manliness - rise of feminism has both positive and negative effects on manliness negative: can cause men to become more selfish - manliness is best shown in war - however, women took charge in WW2 when husbands were away - manliness is a complicated issue because it excludes women, but it can be argued that men and women have different natures to justify their different social roles - Betty Friedan´s ¨The Feminine Mystique¨ is an attack on femininity, not manliness - manliness offers bravery to women - manliness is a quality that causes people to stand up for something - people who possess these qualities have been predominately male, and thus more male leaders and rulers - manly men defend both their turf and country - feminists are insulted by the idea that nature has determined different social parts and purposes for the sexes - each sex is superior in its place - while manliness is partly just a fact of biology, in humans it is linked to thinking and reason in ways that make manliness something much more than mere aggression. In humans, masculinity is more then just defense of ones own. it has been extended to require noble sacrifice for a cause beyond oneself. - Aristotle: men find it easier to be courageous, and women find it easier to be moderate for the most part - men will always have more manliness than women have, and it is up to both sexes to fashion this fact into something good. SETTING: Harvard University?

Campus Racism 101

(Riverside Reader) - Her overall message is that African American students in predominantly white colleges should work hard to obtain a personal education because it is not their job to educate white students on their race. - Since ¨Campus Racism 101¨ is addressed to African American students, Giovanni was informing them that they will encounter white students who will ask ridiculous questions. She gave a list of comebacks that they can use against the most common questions and comments, and it was filled with sarcasm. For example, one of the comments was, ¨ When I see groups of Black people on campus, it's really intimidating.¨ Giovanni's sarcastic comeback for this comment was, ¨I understand what you mean. I'm frightened when I see white students congregating.¨ - there are discomforts attached to attending predominately white colleges, though no more than living in a racist world rules to help: - go to class - meet the professor (office hours) - do assignments on time - understand that there will be professors that do not like you - dont defeat yourself - participate in campus activities - do not take the racial world on ur shoulders. obtain an individual education and do not educate white people SETTING: college campus (predominately white)

The Hoax

(Riverside Reader) - Robert Benchley and a couple of friends showed u pat a Beacon Hill mansion, dressed as furniture repairmen, told the housekeeper they were taking the sofa, and drove off with the sofa for themselves - it was a practical joke, but even further a hoax - to qualify as a hoax, a prank must have magic in it- the word of derived from hocus-pocus - daring and irony - David Hampton pretended to be Sidney Poitier's (wealthy man) son - woman who pretended to be Anastasia, the lost daughter of the assassinated czar Nicholas 11, for 50 yrs - forgeries - fake vermeers painted by obscure dutch artist hans van meegeren - fake authorized biography of Howard Hughes - cliffard irving claimed to have interviewd hughes, but he was jailed after it was determened to be fraud - cardiff giant in ny - farmer named newell and neighbors were digging up a new well, and they came across what appeared to be the fossilized remains of a man 12 feet tall - he set up a tent and charged $1 to get a glimpse ($3 for a longer look) - giant had been carved from a block of gypsum - the giant became an even bigger attraction because it was a hoax - pt barnum offfered newell a fortune for his giant, but newell refused - barnum made a replica and put it on display as the real cardiff giant - Orson Welle's lifelike 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds (convinced americnas that martians had landed in new jersey) - forged diary of hitler (forensic tests proved that there were nylon fibers in the paper, which wasnt invented before 1950) - 500,000 yr old remains of Piltdown man found in 1912, had anthropologists confused about human evolution until 1953, when flouride tests exposed the bones as a hoax SETTING: farmer's fields,

Tricks of the Trade

(Riverside Reader) - The majority of the ¨tricks¨ are unethical because they take advantage of psychology, they exploit gamblers subconsciously, and they are extremely creepy. - odorant 1 - were trying to keep light off the forehead of the customers, which is draining on them from an energy standpoint - They make slight modifications such as having comfortable stools, wide hallways, and fresh air to entice gamblers to stay, so they can squeeze out every last penny - slot machine manufacturers, such as IGT, feature deep, dark colors like black, red, blue, and purple because they trigger a strong response in slot players. - However, some of the ¨tricks¨ are ethical. For example, casinos have hidden cameras to detect card cheats and fast-fingered dealers, so this is an ethical ¨trick.¨ It is also ethical how these cameras also monitor how fast dealers can shuffle and deal a deck of cards because the industry is simply trying to be the most efficient with its time and money. (productivity) - But the pursuit of profitability in the corporate era of gambling has turned the average casino into a financially hazardous place for bettors. - comfort: built-in bill acceptors - casinos dont want gamblers to realize how much theyre losing - softer colored machienes in the center with bright red on the ends of rows - pliny the rat would get more motivated when he recieved the dog biscuit randomly and occasionally - near-miss illusion in Nevada - files on people (average bet, time spent, loss. height, weight) - slot-club cards SETTING: casinos, laboratories

My Daily Dives in the Dumpster

(Riverside Reader) - a man eating semi-moldy cheese - pizza (how he started) - my desire to reach for the gaudy bauble has been largely sated - likes The term scavenging - predictable stages of person learning to scavenge goes through - urban arts - eating safetly (most food is thrown out for a reason) - no matter how careful, he still gets dysentery at least once a month - what a good scavenger cannot use he leaves in good condition in plain sight - believes going thorough indv garbage is too invasive - trash often tells a story - humorous - worried to discover the type of paper that earns an A in an undergrad crse - no value in abstract/excess - unusual sophistacted diction SETTING: dumpster

The Extendable Fork

(Riverside Reader) - people who eat off of others' plates come in 4 caftegories: 1) the Finisher 2) the Waif 3) The Researcher 4) The Simple Thief - he is all four - finisher: - concerned that food may be left uneaten - if youre not planning to finish these.... - the waif - doesnt order much - gazes at other plates like a hungry urchin - that looks delicious... - - the researcher - im curious how they do these fried onions.... - the simple thief - waits for his dinner companions to glance away then grabs - may distract them(michawl jackson or lisa marie presley) - his wife= finisher - eats fried chicken (every last speck of meat) - his wife's way does not require an extendable fork - the fork is nearly 2 ft long (alans x-tenda fork) SETTING: kansas city, missouri (hometown) restaurants.

The Movie That Changed My Life

(Riverside Reader) - positive and negative reaction to watching The Wizard of Oz. - poor household - the house shook when a train passed - she performed a ritual whenever oz came on the tv (cookies or popcorn) - mom raided piggy bank -My house was chaotic, especially with four sisters and 3 brothers and a mother who worked at a factory, and if I'm remembering correctly, my father was there for the first few years of the Oz (until he got tu berculosis and had to live in a sanitarium for a year). I do recall the noise and the fighting of my parents (not to mention my other relatives and neighbors). Violence was plentiful, and I wanted to go wherever Dorothy was going where she would not find trouble. To put it bluntly, I wanted to escape becanse I needed an escape. - she wanted to run away like Dorothy - auntie em sounded just like my mother--bossy and domineering - The movie [The Wizard of Oz 1 taught me that it's okay to be an idealist, that you have to imagine something better and go for it. - dreary farm in Kansas to the luminous land of color of Oz. - t even a fool could hear that it was some kind of drudgery. When I was a child, it became apparent to me that these grown-ups had no power over their lives, or, if they did, they were always at a loss as to how to exercise it. - drinking - Somewhere Over the Rainbow - I can still remember feeling how unfuir things can be, but how they somehow always turn out good. I guess seeing so much negativity had already started to turn me into an optimist. (mrs johnson hotdog) - I watched so much TV. I was always on the lookout for Paradise, and I think I found it a few years later on "Adventures in Paradise," with Gardner McKay, and on "77 Sunset Strip." Palm trees and blue water and islands made quite an impression on a little girl from a flat, dull little depressing town in Michigan - only way to escape: dream - All I wanted was to get a chance to see another side of the world, to be able to make comparisons, and then decide if it was worth coming back home. - Why didn't white girls have to straighten their hair? Why didn't their parents beat each other up? Why were they always so * happy? - courage (lion- mother and please cup of coffee) - And what I remember feeling when she clicked those heels was that you have to have faith and be a believer, for real, or nothing will ever materialize. - good always trumps evil - SETTING: port huron, michigan. land of oz

Arranging a Marriage in India

(Riverside Reader) - skeptical American - Dowry - If he is a good man, why should I not love him? - marriage is taken very seriously in India, and parents give their guidance for marriages because they are the most experienced. - girls can enjoy their young lives without being caught-up in wedding planning and worrying whether they will meet the right man - they dont have to worry about being popular - element of mystery and romance in arranged marriages that isnt in a "love match" - in indian culture, the family is the cornerstone of society (marriages are arranged by thinking of the family's reputation) - they believe that an arranged marriage is the beginning of a life-long relationship between the families as well as bw the bride and groom - indian arranged marriages can also be highly offensive - objectifies the bride by judging her based off of her body and skin color - Even among the educated middle classes in modern, urban India, marriage is as much a concern of the families as it is of the individuals - Parents do not compel their children to marry a person who either marriage partner finds objectionable. - Young men and women do not date and have very little social life involving members of the opposite sex. - "Of course I care," she answered." This is why I must let my parents choose a boy for me. - offended her ideas of individualism - h. In a country where every important resource in life—a job, a house, a social circle—is gained through family connections, it seemed foolhardy to cut oneself off from a supportive social network and depend solely on one person for happiness and success. - she now wants to play match maker (she might arrange a marriage for friends) - people want the same thing in marriage in both places - divorce rate is low in India - only some crossing of subcastes are acceptable if the subcastes are similar - while a girl's looks are important, her character is even more so, for she is being judged as a prospective daughterin-law as much as a prospective bride. - desirable qualities: never gossips - military career, short, and dark are considered setbacks - too educated -"If a mistake is made we have not only ruined the life of our son or daughter, but we have spoiled the reputation of our family as well." - This essay was written from the point of view of a family seeking a daughter-inlaw. Arranged marriage looks somewhat different from the point of view of the bride and her family. - In an arranged marriage the burden of adjustment is clearly heavier for a woman than for a man. And that is in the best of situations. - If she is psychologically, or even physically abused, her options are limited, as returning to her parents' home, or divorce, are still very stigmatized. - marriage and motherhood are expected - This phenomena, called dowry death, calls attention not just to the "evils of dowry" but also to larger issues of the powerlessness of women as well. - SETTING: Bombay, India India in general

Horatio Alger Raged Dick

(Social Class) - American rags to riches stories, fame and fortune - anyone can succeed - Dick (Richard Hunter) - Henry Fosdick - gentleman with two children (father= James Rockwell) - little boy fell off boat (Little Johnny) - father screamed and offered $10,000 to anyone who would save his child - the father said he would sacrifice his whole fortune for Dick's brave action - Dick was about to walk off modestly, but the father said he owed him a debt he could never repay - the father's offer changed, and he offered to get Dick a change of dry clothes and Dick and Fosdick took up the offer - Dick met Rockwell at 11 in the morning in his counting room at Pearl Street - Dick accepted the job offer of a clerk as opposed to a shoe shiner - $10/week= new salary - American dream - when he returned to his room, his old clothes were gone - Dick wished to help Fosdick climb the ladder as well - The two wanted to give their shoe shining spot on the street to a young man named Johnny Nolan, so he could get Dick's regular customers - Dick kept his brush and box to remind himself of his early hard times SETTING: BROOKLYN, NY

Horatio Alger Lies

(Social Class) - Horatio Alger stories are improbable because they dismiss racial inequality, contain unrealistic measures of individual merit, and they define social class as a temporary state - the myth of the american dream and rags to riches stories are not only false- they are socially destructive - critical/insulting diction - A writer of mediocre fiction, Alger had a formula for commercial success that was simple and straightforward: his lead characters, young boys born into poverty, invariably managed to transcend their station in life by dint of hard work, persistence, initiative, and daring.1 Nice story line. - The Horatio Alger myth conveys three basic messages: (1) each of us is judged solely on her or his own merits; (2) we each have a fair opportunity to develop those merits; and (3) ultimately, merit will out. - In this form, it suggests that success in life has nothing to do with pedigree, race, class background, gender, national origin, sexual orientation—in short, with anything beyond our individual control. - Thus, when Carter earned the second-highest score in his high school on the National Merit Scholarship qualifying test, he was readily recognized as "the best Black" around, but somehow not seen as one of the best students, period. - praised for communicating in standard english - surprised when white man can play basketball or salsa - The second message conveyed by Horatio Alger is that we all have a shot at reaching our true potential. Alger's point is that each of us has the power to create our own opportunities. - Besides, there are always up-by-the-bootstraps examples to point to, like Colin Powell, whose name has so frequently been linked with that of Horatio Alger's that he must think they are related.3 Nevertheless, it is by now generally agreed that there is a large category of Americans—some have called it the underclass—for whom upward mobility is practically impossible without massive changes in the structure of the economy and in the allocation of public resources. - the mere fact that a myth is based on false premises or conveys a false image of the world does not necessarily make it undesirable. Indeed, I place great stock in the idea that some illusions are, or at least can be, positive (unrealistic optimism) (deep appeal of the horatio alger myth) - In a nutshell, my objection to the Alger myth is that it serves to maintain the racial pecking order. It does so by mentally bypassing the role of race in American society. And it does so by fostering beliefs that themselves serve to trivialize, if not erase, the social meaning of race. The Alger myth encourages people to blink at the many barriers to racial equality (historical, structural, and institutional) that litter the social landscape. - there are lots of Black folk who subscribe to the Alger myth and at the same time understand it to be deeply false. They live with the dissonance between myth and reality because both are helpful and healthful in dealing with "the adverse events of life." - the horatio alger myth provides whites the opportunity to put the ugliness of racism out of their minds - we do not live in a land of unlimited potential SETTING: Yale Law School?

Looking for Work

(Social Class) - Soto believed that the show itself demonstrated the structure of an ideal family which he desired to replicate. His family in comparison to the family in the TV series was messy and disoriented; while white families on screen seemed to be in a better place that could be considered Utopian like. - Father Knows Best - wearing shoes to dinner - beans and tortillas - Gary Soto´s ambivalence toward tortillas and beans and desire for peaches illustrate the dichotomy between upper and lower classes as well as his desire to be wealthy - ate peaches in the alley - turtle soup on tv - This was the summer when I spent the mornings in front of the television that showed the comfortable lives of white kids. There were no beatings, no rifts in the family. They wore bright clothes; toys tumbled from their closets. They hopped into bed with kisses and woke to glasses of fresh orange juice, and to a father sitting before his morning coffee while the mother buttered his toast. They hurried through the day making friends and gobs of money, returning home to a warmly lit living room, and then dinner. Leave It to Beaver was the program I replayed in my mind - ditch - life preserver out of 4 empty detergent bottles - I tried to convince them that if we improved the way we looked we might get along better in life. White people would like us more. They might invite us to places, like their homes or front yards. They might not hate us so much. My sister called me a "craphead," and got up to leave with a stalk of grass dangling from her mouth. "They'll never like us." - david king= rich white kid next door SETTING: Mexican-American California, outdoor, yard, trench, kitchen

Serving in Florida

(Social Class) - attach importance to the low-wage America workplace. - barbara said the only way she survived each shift was by treating it as if it was a one time only emergency - mindlessly took orders and delivered food - there are no breaks at Jerrys; only to go to the bathroom - pink and orange Hawaiian shirts - barbara quit the hearthside - management at jerrys is calmer than at the hearthside - Customers are, in fact, the major obstacle to the smooth transformation of information into food and food into money - they are, in short, the enemy. - physical pain - unpredictable and obnoxious customers - inhaling nitrous oxide - visible Christians - extremely low pay - Czech dishwasher - not all negative: reliable mutual-support group, had each others backs, "girls" - Overseas Trailer Park - housekeeping at hotel attached to jennys SETTING: near Key West Florida, Jennys, Hearthside restaurants

The Importance of Being Earnest

- (Fiction) by Oscar Wilde - comedy of manners (makes fun of the way upper crust victorian london society behaves) - plot centers on identify confusion and the way one man uses his "imaginary friend" as an excuse to NOT do anything he doesnt want to do - Algernon (Algy) Moncrieff: he has invented an imaginary friend named Bunbury whom he claims to visit at various times in the story. Bunbury is not real. He says he has to visit him whenever he doesnt want to have dinner with people he hates - Ernest (Jack) Worthing: he is playboy "Ernest" in the city but pretends to be responsible man named "Jack" in the country. He wants to marry Algy's cousin, Gwendolen - Lady Bracknell (Aunt Augusta): she represents "proper society" - Cecily Cardew: Ernest's ward, shes a pretty young lady that Ernest is in charge of (after her father's death). She lives with Ernest/Jack in the country, and dreams of "knight in shining armor" who will come to rescue her - Gwendolen Fairflax (Algy's cousin): she wants to marry Ernest (this gets awkward when it turns out that - Lane (algy's butler; sandwhich scene) - Dr. Chausible (algy and jack's spiritual advisor, willing to rechristen them both so they can be called Earnest—and a love interest for Miss Prism) - Miss Prism: Cecily's governess, teaches german, comical with chausible, Jack mistakenly thinks Miss Prism is his mother, but is corrected by Lady Bracknell, who tells him that a Mrs. Moncrieff is his mother. That makes Jack Algernon's older brother. - Merriman is Jack's butler in the country, and is therefore the rural equivalent of Lane in Act I . He has less to do than Lane, though he is present during Gwendolen and Cecily's tea-party, and his presence, along with that of other servants, puts a brake on their hostilities. Algernon and Jack discuss the nature of marriage when they dispute briefly about whether a marriage proposal is a matter of "business" or "pleasure," and Lady Bracknell touches on the issue when she states, "An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be." lady bracknell does dot approve of ernest/jack at first. - vestry - cigarette case Jack thinks reading a private cigarette case is "ungentlemanly." - he simply exploded - every woman becomes her mother; thats her tragedy. No man does; thats his" - muffins - cucumber sandwiches - brighton lane (RR station that jack was left at) - hankerchief with monogram (part of the way algy fools them into thinking hes ernest) - gwendolen is frustrated over her mothers contorl, and she feared that her and jack may never be married - ernest asked gwen what she thought of the name jack and she told him it had no ring to it, and she loves the name ernest - jack proposed to gwendolen in the middle of a causal conversation about engagement - algy pretended to be ernest when he visited cecily - ceci;ly told algy that jack had left to go into town to buy ernest traveling clothes and that Jack plans to send algy to australia (where england sends all crimals) - ack plans to kill off his fake brother, Ernest, saying that he died "suddenly, in Paris, by a severe chill" because he wants to marry Gwendolen (and, presumably, he would not be able to continue the ruse of Ernest's existence when he has a wife). - cecily pulled out a stack of letters that ernest wrote to her, but algy didnt remem bc he isnt ernest - cecily is completly oblivious to the fact that algy is pretending to be ernest - cecily told algy that she alwaus wanted to marry someone named ernest bc she loves the name - gwendolen and cecily's awkaward meeting - the actual ernest entered the room ,and cecily explained how it was her guardian - gwen told algernon's name to cecily instead of ernest - lady bracnell found out that Cecily has a large fortune, and jack wanted to get revenge for how badly lady brackell treated him about him and gwens engagement, so he did not give his consent for cecily to marry algy - algy is jakcks older bro (jack and gwen are cousins!) - jack chistened name was ernest, so he was unknowingly telling the truth all along