[Lady Bracknell, Ralph, and R.P. McMurphy peer through the Rec Center window to watch the AP English 12 students writhe in anxiety as they take their AP exam]
Lady Bracknell: “It’s delightful to watch them” (Wilde 9).
Ralph: [with disgust] “It’s written all over you” (Currie 245).
[The three zero in on one particular student, a Miss Mary Beth O’Neil, who seems to be working slower than her classmates]
Lady Bracknell: “I wish [she] would arrive at some conclusion” (Wilde 52).
Ralph: “Quit worrying!” (Currie 246).
R.P. McMurphy: “Why, don’t you know, buddy?” (Kesey 60).
Ralph: [glances at the multiple choice question] “I’m not really sure I understand it myself” (Currie 249).
Lady Bracknell: “Come dear. We have already missed five if not six” (Wilde 50).
[She finally selects an answer and they let her go on without much heckling and turn to the rest of the room. Next comes free response and they again find someone who seems to struggle with the time, comparatively]
Lady Bracknell: “It is obviously the same person” (Wilde 50).
R.P. McMurphy: “Well you didn’t make her feel like any queen” (Kesey 185).
Lady Bracknell: “most attractive young lady, now that I look at her” (Wilde 47).
R.P. McMurphy: [looks at the stop time rapidly approaching on the large clock] “Not very long…” (Kesey 278).
Ralph: “I don’t really keep track of time out here” (Currie 253).
Lady Bracknell: [sees Mary Beth dividing her time into sharp eight-minute segments] “It looks so calculating…” (Wilde 49).
Ralph: “it feels like [she] wants to do everything all at once” (Currie 245).
[At the anticlimactic end to the long exam, and thus the end to the students’ AP English career, the three observers disappointedly walk away from the Rec]
Lady Bracknell: “Education produces no effect whatsoever” (13).
R.P. McMurphy: “For a minute there, I thought I was back in a Red Chinese prison camp” (Kesey 66).
Ralph: “It doesn’t take long in this place before you start looking like you’ve been here forever” (Currie 245).
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