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ADVANCED General Certificate of Education January 2007 English Literature assessing Module 5: The Study of Twentieth-Century Prose A2L21 A2L21 Assessment Unit A2 2a [A2L21] WEDNESDAY 17 JANUARY, MORNING TIME 1 hour 10 minutes. INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Write your Centre Number and Candidate Number on the Answer Booklet provided. Answer one question. INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES 1 18/4/06EA 2 19/6/06EA The total mark for this paper is 30. Quality of written communication will be assessed in your answer. You should have with you your copy of the prescribed text for this examination. A2L2W7 2362 1 18/4/06EA 2 19/6/06EA BLANK PAGE A2L2W7 2362 2 [Turn over Read all of this page first carefully In this paper you will be marked on your ability to communicate clearly the knowledge, understanding and insight appropriate to literary study, using appropriate terminology and accurate and coherent written expression (AO1) articulate independent opinions and judgements, informed by different interpretations of literary texts by different readers (AO4) evaluate the significance of cultural, historical and other contextual influences on literary texts and study (AO5ii). This means that in your answers, you must express your ideas in a clear and well-organised way, paying careful attention to spelling, punctuation and grammar and using appropriate literary terms develop an argument in response to a statement about the text given at the beginning of the question provide information from outside the text, relevant to the question, about the context; this could be historical, social, cultural circumstances in which the text was written or which are reflected in the text literary context concerned with the type of text e.g. satirical novel, short story or with a particular literary notion such as the hero. 1 18/4/06EA 2 19/6/06EA A2L2W7 2362 3 [Turn over 1 Conrad: The Secret Agent Answer either (a) or (b) (a) Winnie is more than just the central character in The Secret Agent: she is a heroine. Using the given extract as a starting-point*, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. * The extract begins about four or five pages from the end of Chapter 11 with the words, On the sofa Mr Verloc wriggled his shoulders into perfect comfort . . . It goes on to the end of the chapter. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material about the heroine that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. (b) The Secret Agent, though first published over a hundred years ago, is even more relevant now, for the insights it gives into the mind of the terrorist. Using all of Chapter 13 as a starting-point, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. 1 18/4/06EA 2 19/6/06EA N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material from outside the text and relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. A2L2W7 2362 4 [Turn over 2 Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm Answer either (a) or (b) (a) Without a knowledge of English society in the 1930s, the twenty-first century reader finds little to laugh at in Cold Comfort Farm. Using the given extract as a starting-point*, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. * The extract begins about seven or eight pages into Chapter 14 with the words, The hour was nearly nine . . . It goes on to the end of the chapter. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material from outside the text and relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. (b) As a satirical novel Cold Comfort Farm is too exaggerated in its portrayal of rural life to be effective. Using the given extract as a starting-point*, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. * The extract begins two pages into Chapter 3 with the words, Leaving the house by the back door, you came up sharply. . . It ends three or four pages later with, 1 18/4/06EA 2 19/6/06EA You remember what happened when he went to meet the new kitchen maid . . . No. You must go. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material about the satirical novel that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. A2L2W7 2362 5 [Turn over 3 Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms Answer either (a) or (b) (a) Frederic Henry is more anti-hero than hero. Using the given extract as a starting-point*, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. * The extract begins about three pages into Chapter 27 with the words, I did not say anything. I was always embarassed by the words ... It goes on to the end of the chapter. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material about the hero and the anti-hero that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. (b) A Farewell to Arms does not support pacifism: it cannot be called an anti-war novel. Using all of Chapters 32 and 33 as a starting-point, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. 1 18/4/06EA 2 19/6/06EA N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material on the anti-war novel that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. A2L2W7 2362 6 [Turn over 4 Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day Answer either (a) or (b) (a) As an historical novel, The Remains of the Day is a failure it describes an England that never existed. Using the given extract as a starting-point*, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. * The extract begins about three or four pages before the end of Day One Evening with the words, My father s feelings toward the General were, naturally, those of utmost loathing. It goes on to the end of this section of the novel. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material about the historical novel that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. (b) The reader of the twenty-first century finds it impossible to admire Stevens for his blind devotion to duty at the expense of his personal life. Using the given extract as a starting-point*, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. * The extract begins about twenty-two pages into Day Three Evening with the words, As it happened, when she entered my pantry that evening, I was not, in fact, engaged on professional matters. It ends about four pages later with, 1 18/4/06EA 2 19/6/06EA Such as, for instance, the matter of Miss Kenton s days off. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material from outside the text and relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. A2L2W7 2362 7 [Turn over 5 McGahern: That They May Face the Rising Sun Answer either (a) or (b) (a) The people in That They May Face the Rising Sun are influenced more by Irish pagan traditions than by the Irish Catholicism of the late twentieth century. Using the given extract as a starting-point*, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. * The extract begins on page 279 of the hardback edition or page 294 of the paperback edition with the words, Big Mick Madden joined Jamesie and Patrick Ryan . . . It ends about three pages later (both editions) with, . . . it d nearly make you start to think, John Quinn said. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material from outside the text and relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. (b) The characters and attitudes of That They May Face the Rising Sun belong more to an earlier Ireland than to the world of today s young reader. Using the given extract as a starting-point*, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. * The extract begins on page 173 of the hardback edition or page 181 of the paperback edition with the words, Jamesie had great belief in two spoons ... It ends about four or five pages later (both editions) with, 1 18/4/06EA 2 19/6/06EA Everything that had flowered had now come to fruit. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material from outside the text and relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. A2L2W7 A2L2W7 2362 8 [Turn over 6 Madden: Authenticity Answer either (a) or (b) (a) As a Modernist novel, Authenticity is bleak and depressing: it reflects the disorder and meaninglessness of twenty-first-century existence. Using the given extract as a starting-point*, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. * The extract begins about eight pages into Chapter 33 with the words, Neither of the protagonists in the drama that was Roderic s collapse had full knowledge of what had happened. It ends two or three pages later with, He was overcome by a sense of horror and could no longer bear to be on his own. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material about the Modernist novel that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. (b) Authenticity is less concerned with conveying the problems of city life in the early twenty-first century than it is with exploring personal relationships. Using the given extract as a starting-point*, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. * The extract begins about eight pages into Chapter 19 with the words, He loved her and wanted her, of that there was not the slightest doubt in his mind. It ends about three pages later with, 1 18/4/06EA 2 19/6/06EA I was just thinking for the billionth time about how you have made such a good fist of your life, and I ve made such a pig s arse of mine. That s all. A2L2W7 A2L2W7 N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material from outside the text and relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. 2362 9 [Turn over[Turn over [Turn 7 O Connor: Classic Irish Short Stories Answer either (a) or (b) (a) The short stories in this collection give a simple, idealised view of childhood totally alien to the reader of the twenty-first century. By close examination of The Poteen Maker by Michael McLaverty, and with reference to one other appropriately selected short story, give your response to the above view. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material from outside the text and relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the story which you select for reference. (b) None of the characters in these short stories could ever be described as heroic. By close examination of The Eagles and the Trumpets by James Plunkett, and with reference to one other appropriately selected short story, give your response to the above view. 1 18/4/06EA 2 19/6/06EA N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material about the nature of heroism that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the story which you select for reference. A2L2W7 A2L2W7 2362 10 [Turn over 8 Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye Answer either (a) or (b) (a) Holden s critical views on American society in the 1940s are entirely justified. Using the given extract as a starting-point*, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. * The extract begins about seven pages into Chapter 17 with the words, Did you ever get fed up? I said. It ends about a page later with, I m in bad shape. I m in lousy shape. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material from outside the text and relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. (b) In its concentration on the specific social world of the American prep school, The Catcher in the Rye offers only a narrow view of post-war American society. Using the given extract as a starting-point*, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. * The extract begins one paragraph into Chapter 1 with the words, Where I want to start telling is the day I left Pencey Prep. It ends about two pages later with, 1 18/4/06EA 2 19/6/06EA ... but when I leave a place I like to know I m leaving it. If you don t, you feel even worse. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material from outside the text and relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. A2L2W7 A2L2W7 2362 11 [Turn over[Turn over [Turn 9 Trevor: The Collected Stories Answer either (a) or (b) (a) Trevor s short stories are not an accurate portrayal of life in the England of the 1960s: the situations they depict are much too odd. By close examination of The Penthouse Apartment , and with reference to one other appropriately selected story, give your response to the above view. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material from outside the text and relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the story which you select for reference. (b) A significant feature of the successful short story is that it is about unimportant people facing important events in their lives. Trevor s short stories are no exception to this. By close examination of Mr McNamara , and with reference to one other appropriately selected story, give your response to the above view. 1 18/4/06EA 2 19/6/06EA N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material about the nature of the short story that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the story which you select for reference. A2L2W7 A2L2W7 2362 12 [Turn over 10 Walker: The Color Purple Answer either (a) or (b) (a) The novel s ignoring of the reality of women s powerlessness in the early twentieth century is not what we expect from a feminist novel. Using all of Letter 75 as a starting-point*, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. * The letter is found about two-thirds of the way into the novel and begins with, Dear Nettie, Well, you know wherever there s a man, there s trouble. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material about the Feminist novel that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. (b) Although Shug Avery causes hurt to others by her selfishness, she is the novel s heroine. Using all of Letter 22 as a starting-point*, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. * The letter is found about thirty-eight pages into the novel and begins with the words, Dear God, Shug Avery sick and nobody in this town wants to take the Queen Honeybee in. 1 18/4/06EA 2 19/6/06EA N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material about the heroine that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. A2L2W7 A2L2W7 2362 13 [Turn over[Turn over [Turn 11 Wharton: The Age of Innocence Answer either (a) or (b) (a) As an example of the historical novel The Age of Innocence fails. It does not reveal the true story of New York in the late nineteeth century. Using the given extract as a starting-point*, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. * The extract begins at the start of Chapter 12 with the words, Old fashioned New York dined at seven . . . and ends about three pages later with, . . . and of the need of thinking himself into conditions incredibly different from any that he knew if he were to be of use to her in her present difficulty. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material about the historical novel that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. (b) Ellen Olenska represents nothing more than the nineteenth-century stereotype of a fallen woman . Using the given extract as a starting-point*, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. * The extract begins about four pages from the end of Chapter 12 with the words, I used to care immensely too: my life was full of such things. But now I want to try not to. 1 18/4/06EA 2 19/6/06EA It goes on to the end of the chapter. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer contextual material from outside the text and relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. A2L2W7 2362 A2L2W7 2362 14 [Turn over THIS IS THE END OF THE QUESTION PAPER AE60/6/91 2 AE60/4/81 1 Permission to reproduce all copyright material has been applied for. In some cases, efforts to contact copyright holders may have been unsuccessful and CCEA will be happy to rectify any omissions of acknowledgement in future if notified. S 3/05 1300 9-039-1 [Turn over

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