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ADVANCED General Certificate of Education January 2008 English Literature Assessment Unit A2 2a Module 5: The Study of Twentieth-Century Prose A2L21 assessing [A2L21] WEDNESDAY 16 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 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. A2L2W8 3299 BLANK PAGE A2L2W8 3299 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 answer, 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 literary context concerned with the type of text e.g. satirical novel, short story or with a particular literary notion such as the hero. A2L2W8 3299 3 [Turn over 1 Conrad: The Secret Agent Answer either (a) or (b) (a) The Secret Agent is more of a psychological novel than a political novel in that the psychology of the characters is more interesting than their politics. 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 opening of Chapter 3 and ends about five pages later with the words, He gave the discussion up with a slight shrug of his shoulders. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer external contextual material on the nature of the psychological novel and of the political novel that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your treatment of the extract. (b) The Secret Agent reflects a view of marriage which is quite unusual for its time. 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 five or six pages into Chapter 12 with the words, What would you say if I were to tell you that I was going to find you? Mrs Verloc asked, gripping his arm with force. It ends about six or seven pages later with, I couldn t do it myself I couldn t, I couldn t not even for what I am afraid of. 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 treatment of the extract. A2L2W8 3299 4 [Turn over 2 Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm Answer either (a) or (b) (a) Flora Poste is too much of an irritating busybody to be considered the heroine of the novel. 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 2 and ends about three pages later with the words, . . . such a tendency must naturally reflect itself in local nomenclature. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer external contextual material on the nature of the heroine that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your treatment of the extract. (b) A successful satirical novel should draw the reader s attention to the weaknesses of society Cold Comfort Farm fails to do this. Using Chapter 18 as a starting-point, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, give your response to the above view. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer external contextual material on the nature of the satirical novel that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your treatment of the extract. A2L2W8 3299 5 [Turn over 3 Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms Answer either (a) or (b) (a) As a war novel exploring male concerns and perspectives, A Farewell to Arms has little of interest for young female readers of the twenty-first 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 opening of Chapter 37 and ends about seven or eight pages later with the words, Catherine smiled at me very happily. Here comes the coffee, she said. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer external contextual material about young female readers of the twenty-first century that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your treatment of the extract. (b) A Farewell to Arms gives an historically reliable account of World War I from the point of view of the ordinary soldier. Using Chapter 19 as a starting-point, and with reference to other appropriately selected parts of the novel, 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 treatment of the extract. A2L2W8 3299 6 [Turn over 4 Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day Answer either (a) or (b) (a) The novel tells us little of the politics of the time at which the story begins and to which it often refers the mid 1950s. 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 eighteen or nineteen pages before the end of Day Three Evening with the words, You re very kind, sir, Mrs Smith said. It ends about five pages later with, We fought for it. We ve all got to play our part. 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 treatment of the extract. (b) The Remains of the Day cannot be regarded as an accurate account of the historical events of the first half of the twentieth century as it is more concerned with the personal life of the central character. 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 nine pages before the end of Day Two Morning with the words, M Dupont had not once looked over in Mr Lewis s direction during the course of this speech. It goes on to the end of the section. 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 treatment of the extract. A2L2W8 3299 7 [Turn over 5 McGahern: That They May Face the Rising Sun Answer either (a) or (b) (a) For the twenty-first century reader, That They May Face the Rising Sun is a novel about a now vanished Ireland. 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 7 of the hardback edition or page 8 of the paperback edition with the words, A long sudden rapping on the porch door did not allow for any response. It ends on page 12 of the hardback edition or page 13 of the paperback edition with, In the house Kate and Jamesie were talking about him still. 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 treatment of the extract. (b) That They May Face the Rising Sun is more a nature novel than a social novel. 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 109 of the hardback edition or page 114 of the paperback edition with the words, Jamesie here always took a week from the roads to cut the turf and set the potatoes . . . . It ends on page 117 of the hardback edition or page 123 of the paperback edition with, Jamesie s head started to droop towards his chest as they drove. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer external contextual material on the nature novel and the social novel that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your treatment of the extract. A2L2W8 3299 8 [Turn over 6 Madden: Authenticity Answer either (a) or (b) (a) Authenticity exaggerates the bleakness of twenty-first-century 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 four pages into Chapter 13 with the words, They had lunch in a restaurant of William s choosing . . . It ends just over two pages later with, Do as you wish, she said again. Shall we go now? 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) Authenticity is less a philosophical novel about artists and painting than a moving twenty-first-century love story. 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 opening of Chapter 21, and ends about three pages further on with the words, They would not be able to grasp how astonishing an achievement it was for him to be there at the still centre of an ordinary life, ordinary happiness, something that had eluded him until now. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer external contextual material on the nature of the philosophical novel and the twenty-first-century love story that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. A2L2W8 3299 9 [Turn over 7 O Connor: Classic Irish Short Stories Answer either (a) or (b) (a) The short story is too limited in scale to allow characters to become meaningful to the reader. By close examination of Lisheen Races, Second-hand , by Somerville and Ross, 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 external contextual material on 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. (b) The finest short stories are those which come closest to fables or parables. By close examination of The Fairy Goose by Liam O Flaherty, 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 external contextual material on 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. A2L2W8 3299 10 [Turn over 8 Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye Answer either (a) or (b) (a) The problems Holden faces in post-war American society are typical of the problems teenagers encounter today. 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 from the end of Chapter 2 with the words, Do you blame me for flunking you boy . . . 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) Holden s attitudes and behaviour towards females are typical of a teenager in the American post-war period. 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 opening of Chapter 11, and ends just over three pages further on with the words, All you know was, you were happy. You really were. 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. A2L2W8 3299 11 [Turn over 9 Trevor: The Collected Stories of William Trevor Answer either (a) or (b) (a) Because the events and situations in some of Trevor s stories are set in the 1960s and 70s, they no longer have any relevance for the twenty-first century reader. By close examination of Sunday Drinks , 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) It has been said that a successful short story must always include a shocking moment when truth is recognised. By close examination of The Paradise Lounge , 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 external contextual material on 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. A2L2W8 3299 12 [Turn over 10 Walker: The Color Purple Answer either (a) or (b) (a) Celie is much more than just the main narrator in The Color Purple: she is the spokeswoman of a feminist novel. Using all of letter 8 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 nine pages into the novel and begins, Dear God, It took him the whole Spring, from March to June, to make up his mind to take me. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer external contextual material on the nature of 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) The Color Purple is primarily a social protest novel. Using all of letter 65 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 a bit more than half-way through the novel and begins, Dearest Celie, I meant to write to you in time for Easter, but it was not a good time for me and I did not want to burden you with any distressing news. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer external contextual material about the social protest novel that is relevant to the question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. A2L2W8 3299 13 [Turn over 11 Wharton: The Age of Innocence Answer either (a) or (b) (a) Newland Archer should be described as the novel s central figure rather than its hero as he lacks heroic qualities. 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 two and a half pages from the end of Chapter 26 with the words, On the drive homeward May remained oddly silent ... It goes on to the end of the chapter. N.B. 1. You must include in your answer external contextual material on the nature of the hero that is relevant to this question. 2. One quarter of the marks for this question are available for your use of the extract. (b) The picture of marriage in nineteenth-century America may be historically accurate but it is also entirely negative. 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 opening of Chapter 6 and ends about two and a half pages later with the words, . . . she was to be plunged overnight into what people evasively call the facts of life . 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. A2L2W8 A2L2W8 3299 14 [Turn over A2L2W8 3299 15 [Turn over 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 5/07 302-037-1 [Turn over

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