[hello2394]

hey does anyone remember the question from the to kill a mockingbird section from last years (2009) AQA english literature paper?? would be overjoyed with any answers
thanks in advance x

[hello2394]

please please help needed ASAP please please please i am very very desperate pleaseee x

[Orwell]

Yep, there was a choice of 2 questions, you choose one to do:-

Q1) Do you think "To Kill A Mockingbird" is a fitting title for this novel?
Q2) Discuss the importance of Calpurnia to the novel as a whole.

I don't remeber what the textual analysis Q was, soz dude.

EDIT: Also, chill out abit, OK.

[hello2394]

haha thank you so much

[ECullen]

what an amazing novel.
p.s. would have chosen the 2) question.. much more to write.

[hello2394]

yeah tis a great novel
really? what would you write about her importance? title is much more easy to write about lol

[Orwell]

(Original post by MedAmy)
what an amazing novel.
p.s. would have chosen the 2) question.. much more to write.

More to write on Calpurnia than on the title, are you joking? Calpurnia was a minor character, you van branch Q1 of in so many different directions.

Also, it isn't a great novel, its a simple novel which people with bad taste percieve as great.

[hello2394]

More to write on Calpurnia than on the title, are you joking? Calpurnia was a minor character, you van branch Q1 of in so many different directions.
agree with this but...i think its quite a deep and complicated novel

[Skye333]

I took that very exam - June 2009, the most recent for that book - the above question is from the year before, as I remember my teacher giving us those questions in our mock, cos I did number 1.

You can probably find the papers on the AQA website, as the june/july 09 papers were published there in november I think.

In my exam the questions were something along the lines of:

1.Discuss Boo Radley's character in the novel (I did that one)

and the other one to pick was:

2.What Racial tension was there in the book

Not the exact wording but that's what they were. x

[S_123]

I would probably have gone for the first question. I don't feel I know any of the characters well enough to write about them lol. If the theme question in June is really hard I have no idea what I'm going to do lol because I don't like the character questions!

[hello2394]

ah okay thats what i thought but
Orwell put:
Re: English Literature-to Kill A Mockingbird

Yep, there was a choice of 2 questions, you choose one to do:-

Q1) Do you think "To Kill A Mockingbird" is a fitting title for this novel?
Q2) Discuss the importance of Calpurnia to the novel as a whole.

I don't remeber what the textual analysis Q was, soz dude.

so what actually were the questions? x

[ECullen]

(Original post by Orwell)
More to write on Calpurnia than on the title, are you joking? Calpurnia was a minor character, you van branch Q1 of in so many different directions.

Also, it isn't a great novel, its a simple novel which people with bad taste percieve as great.

everyone entitled to their own opinion.
although it wouldn't have achieved so many awards if as you say "it isn't a great novel"...

and I am not joking. There is much more to write on calpurnia, perhaps if you take a closer look at the text, you will understand what a major role Calpurnia played.

You clearly don't appreciate great novels; and can't read between the lines.

[Orwell]

(Original post by MedAmy)
everyone entitled to their own opinion.
although it wouldn't have achieved so many awards if as you say "it isn't a great novel"...

and I am not joking. There is much more to write on calpurnia, perhaps if you take a closer look at the text, you will understand what a major role Calpurnia played.

You clearly don't appreciate great novels; and can't read between the lines.

Because awards have always been the hallmark of a truly "great novel," right? If you want me to wheel out a list of better books which haven't been so imprinted upon the public conciousness I can do. Literary awards are not a measure of the worth of a novel, and if you can't distinguish between the two I think it is perhaps you who doesn't appreciate great novels.

I'm not saying it isn't a good novel, what I am saying is that it is a simple novel, it has evident themes, it doesn't push any boundaries, it isn't particularly poetic and I don't think it deserves the position it's been given.

Also, Calpurnia IS NOT a major character, she is a simple way of bridging the white/black gap, nothing more.

I appreciate great novels, and TKAM isn't one of them.

[ECullen]

(Original post by Orwell)
Because awards have always been the hallmark of a truly "great novel," right? If you want me to wheel out a list of better books which haven't been so imprinted upon the public conciousness I can do. Literary awards are not a measure of the worth of a novel, and if you can't distinguish between the two I think it is perhaps you who doesn't appreciate great novels.

I'm not saying it isn't a good novel, what I am saying is that it is a simple novel, it has evident themes, it doesn't push any boundaries, it isn't particularly poetic and I don't think it deserves the position it's been given.

Also, Calpurnia IS NOT a major character, she is a simple way of bridging the white/black gap, nothing more.

I appreciate great novels, and TKAM isn't one of them.

Appreciate what you say, and I think it is an all time classic, which plays homage to the sheer reality of what happened to those who were black.

everyone to their own opinion.

And also, please calm down.

[Orwell]

(Original post by MedAmy)
Appreciate what you say, and I think it is an all time classic, which plays homage to the sheer reality of what happened to those who were black.

everyone to their own opinion.

And also, please calm down.

Just debating dude.