GCSE - AQA Style ENGLISH LITERATURE

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1 QUESTION PAPER GCSE - AQA Style ENGLISH LITERATURE Paper 2 Modern texts and poetry Time: 2 hour 15 minutes Materials For this paper you must have: A 16- page answer book Instructions Answer one question from Section A, one question from Section B and both questions in Section C Write the information required on the front of your answer book Use black ink or black ballpoint pen. Do not use pencil Information The marks for questions are shown in brackets The maximum mark for this paper is 96 AO4 will be assessed in Section A. There are 4 marks available for AO4 in Section A in addition to 30 marks for answering the question. AO4 assesses the following skills: Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation There are 30 marks for Section B and 32 marks for Section C Commissioned by The PiXL Club Ltd. This resource is strictly for the use of member schools for as long as they remain members of The PiXL Club. It may not be copied, sold, or transferred to a third party or used by the school after membership ceases. Until such time it may be freely used within the member school. All opinions and contributions are those of the authors. The contents of this resource are not connected with, or endorsed by, any other company, organisation or institution. PiXL Club Ltd endeavour to trace and contact copyright owners. If there are any inadvertent omissions or errors in the acknowledgements or usage, this is unintended and PiXL will remedy these on written notification. 1

2 SECTION A QUESTION PAGE Modern Prose or Drama JB Priestley An Inspector Calls Willy Russell Blood Brothers Alan Bennett The History Boys Dennis Kelly DNA Simon Stephens The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time Shelagh Delaney A Taste of Honey William Golding Lord of the Flies AQA Anthology Telling Tales George Orwell Animal Farm Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go Meera Syal Anita and Me Stephen Kelman Pigeon English SECTION B QUESTION PAGE Poetry AQA Anthology Poems Past and Present Love and Relationships Power and Conflict SECTION C QUESTION PAGE Unseen Poetry

3 Section A: Modern Prose or Drama Answer one question from this section on your chosen text. EITHER JB Priestley - An Inspector Calls 01 How does Priestley use the character of Mr Birling to explore ideas about responsibility? how Priestley presents the character of Mr Birling how Priestley uses the character of Mr Birling to explore ideas about responsibility. 02 How does Priestley present manipulation in An Inspector Calls? how some characters manipulate, or are manipulated by, others how Priestley presents manipulation by the way that he writes. 3

4 Willy Russell - Blood Brothers 03 In Blood Brothers, Mickey says Well, how come you got everything an I got nothin? How does Russell use the characters Mickey and Eddie to explore ideas about inequality? how Russell presents Mickey and Eddie how Russell uses these characters to explore ideas about inequality. 04 How does Russell explore ideas about betrayal in Blood Brothers? the ways particular characters betray each other how Russell explores ideas about betrayal by the way he writes. 4

5 Alan Bennett - The History Boys 05 How does Bennett use the teachers to explore ideas about history and the truth? how Bennett presents the characters how Bennett uses the characters to explore ideas about history and the truth. 06 How does Bennett present conformity in The History Boys? the ideas about conformity in The History Boys how Bennett presents these ideas by the way he writes. 5

6 Dennis Kelly - DNA 07 How does Kelly present different characters as leaders in DNA? how Kelly presents different characters as leaders how Kelly uses different characters to explore ideas about leadership 08 How does Kelly explore the effects of obedience in DNA? how some of the characters are presented as obedient how Kelly presents the effects of obedience. 6

7 Simon Stephens - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time 09 How does Stephens present the importance of telling the truth in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time? how Stephens presents characters telling the truth or lying how Stephens presents attitudes towards telling the truth. 10 How does Stephens present Christopher s mother as a parent? what Christopher s mother says and does how Stephens presents Christopher s mother 7

8 Shelagh Delaney - A Taste of Honey 11 How does Delaney present responsibility in A Taste of Honey? the ideas about responsibility in A Taste of Honey how Delaney presents these ideas by the way she writes. 12 How does Delaney present the character of Jo as independent in A Taste of Honey? how Delaney presents the character of Jo how Delaney uses the character of Jo to explore ideas about independence. 8

9 William Golding - Lord of the Flies 13 How does Golding explore loss of innocence in Lord of the Flies? how Golding presents loss of innocence how Golding explores these ideas through the way he writes. 14 How does Golding use the character of Jack to explore ideas about power? how Golding presents the character of Jack how Golding uses Jack to explore ideas about power. 9

10 AQA Anthology Telling Tales 15 How do writers present loss in Chemistry and in one other story from Telling Tales? some of the ideas about loss that are presented in the two stories how the writers present these ideas by the ways they write. 16 How do writers present prejudice in My Polish Teacher s Tie and in one other story from Telling Tales? some of the ideas about discrimination that are presented in the two stories how the writers present these ideas by the ways they write. 10

11 George Orwell - Animal Farm 17 How does Orwell explore idealism in Animal Farm? how Orwell presents different characters as idealistic how Orwell explores idealism through the way he writes. 18 How does Orwell use the character of Boxer to explore ideas about class? how Orwell presents the character of Boxer how Orwell uses Boxer to explore attitudes about class. 11

12 Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go 19 How does Ishiguro explore ideas about identity in Never Let Me Go? how Ishiguro uses different characters to explore identity how Ishiguro presents these ideas by the way he writes 20 How does Ishiguro present romantic relationships in Never Let Me Go? how Ishiguro presents different romantic relationships how Ishiguro presents ideas about romantic relationships by the way he writes. 12

13 Meera Syal - Anita and Me 21 How does Syal explore ideas of belonging in Anita and Me? how Syal presents ideas of belonging how Syal explores ideas of belonging by the way she writes. 22 How does Syal present different attitudes towards parenthood in Anita and Me? how Syal presents parents in the novel how Syal present different attitudes towards parenthood by the way she writes. 13

14 Stephen Kelman - Pigeon English 23 How does Kelman use the character of Harrison to explore importance of imagination in Pigeon English? how Kelman presents the character of Harrison in the novel how Kelman uses Harrison to explore the importance of imagination. 24 How does Kelman explore attitudes towards crime in Pigeon English? how Kelman presents different characters attitudes towards crime how Kelman explores attitudes towards crime by the way he writes. TURN OVER F SECTION B 14

15 Section B: Poetry Answer one question from this section. AQA Anthology Poems Past and Present EITHER Love and Relationships The poems you have studied are: Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning Thomas Hardy Charlotte Mew C Day Lewis Maura Dooley Charles Causley Seamus Heaney Simon Armitage Carol Ann Duffy Owen Sheers Daljit Nagra Andrew Waterhouse When We Two Parted Love s Philosophy Porphyria s Lover Sonnet 29 I think of thee! Neutral Tones The Farmer s Bride Walking Away Letters From Yorkshire Eden Rock Follower Mother, any distance Before You Were Mine Winter Swans Singh Song! Climbing My Grandfather 15

16 25 Compare how poets present attitudes towards growing older in Mother, any distance and one other poem from Love and Relationships. Mother, any distance Mother, any distance greater than a single span requires a second pair of hands. You come to help me measure windows, pelmets, doors, the acres of the walls, the prairies of the floors 5 You at the zero- end, me with the spool of tape, recording length, reporting metres, centimetres back to base, then leaving up the stairs, the line still feeding out, unreeling years between us. Anchor. Kite. I space- walk through empty bedrooms, climb 10 the ladder to the loft, to breaking point, where something has to give; two floors below your fingertips still pinch the last one- hundredth of an inch I reach towards a hatch that opens on an endless sky 15 to fall or fly. Simon Armitage 16

17 Power and Conflict The poems you have studied are: Percy Bysshe Shelley William Blake William Wordsworth Robert Browning Alfred Lord Tennyson Wilfred Owen Seamus Heaney Ted Hughes Simon Armitage Jane Weir Carol Ann Duffy Imtiaz Dharker Carol Rumens Beatrice Garland John Agard Ozymandias London The Prelude: stealing the boat My Last Duchess The Charge of the Light Brigade Exposure Storm on the Island Bayonet Charge Remains Poppies War Photographer Tissue The Emigrée Kamikaze Checking Out Me History 17

18 26 Compare how poets present experiences of war in Bayonet Charge and one other poem from Power and Conflict. Bayonet Charge Suddenly he awoke and was running raw In raw- seamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy, Stumbling across a field of clods towards a green hedge That dazzled with rifle fire, hearing 5 Bullets smacking the belly out of the air He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm; The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest, In bewilderment then he almost stopped 10 In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations Was he the hand pointing that second? He was running Like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs Listening between his footfalls for the reason Of his still running, and his foot hung like 15 Statuary in mid- stride. Then the shot- slashed furrows Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame And crawled in a threshing circle, its mouth wide Open silent, its eyes standing out. He plunged past with his bayonet toward the green hedge, 20 King, honour, human dignity, etcetera Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm To get out of the blue crackling air His terror s touchy dynamite. Ted Hughes TURN OVER F SECTION C 18

19 Section C: Unseen Poetry Answer both question in this section. Storm in the Black Forest Now it is almost night, from the bronzey soft sky jugfull after jugfull of pure white liquid fire, bright white tipples over and spills down, and is gone 5 and gold- bronze flutters bent through the thick upper air. And as the electric liquid pours out, sometimes a still brighter white snake wriggles among it, spilled and tumbling wriggling down the sky: and then the heavens cackle with uncouth sounds. 10 And the rain won t come, the rain refuses to come! This is the electricity that man is supposed to have mastered chained, subjugated to his use! supposed to! D. H. Lawrence 27.1 In Storm in the Black Forest, how does the poet present the speaker s feelings about the storm? [24 marks] 19

20 27.2 In both Storm in the Black Forest and The Moment the speakers describe the relationship between man and nature. What are the similarities and/or differences between the ways the poets present this relationship? [8 marks] The Moment The moment when, after many years, of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your room, house, half- acre, square mile, island, country, 5 knowing at last how you got there, and say, I own this, is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms from around you, the birds take back their language, 10 the cliffs fissure and collapse, the air moves back from you like a wave and you can t breathe. No, they whisper. You own nothing. You were a visitor, time after time 15 climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming. We never belonged to you. You never found us. It was always the other way round. Margaret Atwood END OF QUESTIONS 20