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List four things about the motor-van (lines 1 to 5)

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List four things about the motor-van (lines 1 to 5)

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answers must:

be from the correct lines

relate to the topic (motor van)

make sense on their own

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1 - Old
2 - The van is streaky
3 - Hartop is driving
4 - The van is slow
WHICH ANSWERS ARE CORRECT? WHICH ARE INCORRECT AND WHY?

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How does the writer use language to describe the Hartop family? (lines 6 to 12)

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How does the writer use language to describe the Hartop family? (lines 6 to 12)

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The text is from the beginning of a short story.  How has the writer structured the text to interest you as a reader?

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The text is from the beginning of a short story.  How has the writer structured the text to interest you as a reader?

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From line 34 to the end.  A student said, 'This part of the story where Alice is sent back along the road to find the chrysanthemums, shows how hard and cruel Hartop is, so all of our sympathy is with Alice.'  To what extent do you agree?

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From line 34 to the end.  A student said, 'This part of the story where Alice is sent back along the road to find the chrysanthemums, shows how hard and cruel Hartop is, so all of our sympathy is with Alice.'  To what extent do you agree?

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answers must:

give an interpretation of the topic (a member of the family)

give a quote as evidence of the interpretation (from the correct lines)

analyse the effect of the language in the quote (keyword or language device)

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answers must:

discuss the development of the piece as a whole (break it down using sections)

use subject terminology (structural terms and devices)

explain the effects of the writer's choices of structural features (effect on the reader)

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answers must:

respond to the statement and give their own interpretation

give a quote as evidence

analyse the effects of the language in the quote

challenge the statement

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Hartop is thin. This is shown in, 'a thin, angular man, starved-faced.' Thin has connotations of slim and slight.
HOW COULD THIS ANSWER BE IMPROVED?

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The writer implies that the daughter is not comfortable.  This is evident in, 'arms flat as though ironed against her side'. Being ironed would not be a comfortable experience.
HOW COULD THIS ANSWER BE IMPROVED?

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1 - It's a Ford
2 - It's been repainted green
3 - It has a flattened-out biscuit tin nailed to the side
4 - Rain hailed on the windscreen
WHICH ANSWERS ARE CORRECT? WHICH ARE INCORRECT AND WHY?

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The text begins by describing Hartop’s van and the three members of the family, so that we know who they are. Then the van is moving with the women squashed up inside. Later, Alice leaves the van to find what has dropped off the roof.

WHAT COULD BE ADDED TO THIS ANSWER?

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At the beginning, the focus is on the outside of the old van which is a bit battered and is travelling slowly through the ‘squally November half- darkness’. Then we move inside the van where Hartop is sprawled in the driver’s seat and his wife and daughter are squashed up together. The writer then moves the action forward as Hartop drives the old van carefully through the rainy night until it stops because he thinks something has fallen from the roof. The focus then switches to the outside where Alice ‘with the rain full in her face’ looks for the lost item. She watches the van disappear into the distance and is left alone. Later, the writer uses dialogue as a way of reuniting Alice with her father but in an aggressive way, so that she ‘walked away and vanished’ at the end of the text.
WHAT IS EFFECTIVE ABOUT THIS ANSWER?

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I agree to an extent that Alice is treated cruelly.  She, the child, is made to get out of the van as shown in, ''Alice, you get out,' Hartop said.''  Without much thought and in quite a short and sharp way Hartop gives the order to his daughter.
WHAT IS EFFECTIVE ABOUT THIS ANSWER AND WHAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED?

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I agree to some extent that we do sympathise with Alice.  This is because it appears that she is quite hopeless and maybe even depressed with her life as shown in,  'She cold see nothing.'  In the literal sense, she could see nothing at that moment as she was left alone on an unlit road. However, the quote can also be viewed as a representation of her life and imply that she can see no future with her current situation.  This makes us feel sorry for Alice.
WHAT IS EFFECTIVE ABOUT THIS ANSWER AND WHAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED?

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Hartop cares more about his business than his daughter.  Do you agree?  Is there any evidence of this?

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Hartop cares more about his business than his daughter.  Do you agree?  Is there any evidence of this?

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"The Hartops faces seemed moulded in clay"