AQA English Literature B - Unit 1, Aspects of Narrative - 8/06/2010

What is everyone studying?
And has anyone got any guesses to possible questions?

Im studying Pride and Prejudice, The kite runner, Tennyson and Rossetti.
If your doing Tennyson, its possible that the lotus eaters or The lady of shallot come up on the exam as they haven't featured in the past papers.

Reply 1

TWF

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Kite Runner, Rhimes of The Ancient Mariner, Great Gatsby and Hardy poems collection.

Section B will hopefully include voices. If it does, Id be a happy boy. I'd also be fine with characters or settings.

Reply 2

LeelyLily

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TWF

Kite Runner, Rhimes of The Ancient Mariner, Great Gatsby and Hardy poems collection.

Section B will hopefully include voices. If it does, Id be a happy boy. I'd also be fine with characters or settings.

Voices?
Wow I don't know how I would answer a question including voices :/

Reply 3

CuteStar*

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Kite Runner, Curious Incidents, Hardy, Browning :|

Reply 4

LeelyLily

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CuteStar*

Kite Runner, Curious Incidents, Hardy, Browning :|

i've found so many people doing Hardy. I wish we studied them now :|

Reply 5

CuteStar*

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LeelyLily

i've found so many people doing Hardy. I wish we studied them now :|

Dont say that.. Hardy sucks :frown:

Reply 6

hyperscorpio

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Dont say that.. Hardy sucks :frown:

How can you say that!! Hardy's my section A, it's brilliant! Well, completely depressing, but easy to analyse - plus the stanzas in the Convergence of the Twain look like ships. For that alone Hardy has won me over :biggrin:

Reply 7

WhereIsMyMind

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CuteStar*

Dont say that.. Hardy sucks :frown:

Hardy does suck.. his poems made me suicidal and all depressed. :p:

Reply 8

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I'm studying kite runner, small island, tennyson and auden
yea im really hoping for character, context, setting and narrative voices.
Has anyone been taught about the commentary/criticisms to include in Section B of the question (the argument bit)

Reply 9

yidnuslabray

lads
hardy is wonderful
he writes so fluidly and his poetic rhythms often make me feel slightly faint
i heard convergence of the twain is section a part i
just a hint

Reply 10

LeelyLily

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||...Bubbles...||

I'm studying kite runner, small island, tennyson and auden
yea im really hoping for character, context, setting and narrative voices.
Has anyone been taught about the commentary/criticisms to include in Section B of the question (the argument bit)

I would love a character question, Especially for a text like the kite runner as you can talk about character changes

Reply 11

TWF

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WhereIsMyMind

Hardy does suck.. his poems made me suicidal and all depressed. :p:

There's sooooo much to talk about though, collectively, Hardy's poems could apply to any section B question. I have no trouble with Hardy at all. My problem is Kite Runner and The Ancient Mariner.

Reply 12

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LeelyLily

I would love a character question, Especially for a text like the kite runner as you can talk about character changes

Exactly, or even how some characters don't change, like Assef :smile:

Reply 13

artykid23

narrators bit:

the great gastby:
1st person
retrospective
western attitude. no longer vulnerable and in his younger years
favours gatsby - idealised
hates tom- agressive description
questioned his reliability as a narrator because he gets drunk in new york

keats: LBDSM - narrator only appears in the first 2 stanzas, he asks a question to the knight which is like the iniatiation of the whole plot
TEOSA- omnipresent narrator - detached from the scene
ah bitter chill - sense that narrator however is present and can feel the chill
narrative voic created... also said that they are not in the 1st person so less intimacy

hardy- talked about narrator questioning dead wife and sense of anger in his narrative voice etc - how it is a direct poem between narrator and wife i.e pronouns of you and I.
also talked about how his wife is the narrator - irony that its hardy feeliings though and sense of regret. this time its more 'he' so the narrator wants the reader to be the intermediate character!!

write back if you talked about anything similar

AQA English Literature B - Unit 1, Aspects of Narrative - 8/06/2010

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