AS Aspects of narrative exam 16th May 2012

I'm doing Hardy too The Voice came up in January.. the 3 poems that haven't come up yet since January 2009 are Under The Waterfall, At an Inn and Neutral Tones

Ahhh, i completely believed that at castle boterel had not come up! what year did this exam come up in?
how are you feeling about the exam? what authors are you planning on doing for what sections? i'm praying those three poems come up under hardy!

Can someone read this and just point out whatevers wrong with this or whether its decent. Its a question about the significance of resolutions in texts.

Throughout the novel, Hortense and Gilbert display a clear lack of love and bonding which remains until the near-end. In chapter 51, when Hortense fails at being accepted a teacher as she had dearly hoped, Gilbert comes to brighten her spirits up by showing her around the sights of London she had ‘seen in books’. He succeeds at making her happy and in this chapter Hortense demonstrates a softer side to herself – a side which initiates the start of their emotional relationship. Further on in chapter 56, Gilbert takes Hortense to see their new house in Finsbury Park and this also ignites Hortense’s softer side. Upon seeing the ‘good room’ they can ‘fix up’ with just ‘a little hard work’, Hortense is reminded of her ‘golden’ English dreams of a house (as repeated in the first chapter) with ‘a bell at the door… (that goes) ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling’. This instantly brings out the loving side of her to the extent that she later invited Gilbert to the bed and initiates physical intimacy – something Gilbert longed for. Thus, the house and the sights are allegorical for a resolution to their previous disliking of each other and for their new beginning.

THANKS IN ADVANCE

I'm doing S I too - do you have any resources??? send me any?
Yes, it is a good response showing depth and understanding of the whole text. However maybe just slot in a bit more about A02 Language, form, structure i,e, the structural progression from chapter (2?) to the climactic end of the novel advocates the resolution. - then alternative interpretation - perhaps Levy uses this resolution in the '1948' present environment to present the viewpoint that dreams are sometimes are reality. There is a glimmer of hope for Levy's protagonists as they reach resolution through setting. BASICALLY tie up your ends and don't just tell the narrative back to the examiner. You must relate the aspects i.e. resolution to other aspects of narrative. How are resolutions shown through setting, voice, lexis, form, structure, time etc. : )

Anyone know what the average grade boundaries are? AQA website not working.... helpful this close to exams!
So scared for this exam

It is usually around 50/84 for an A.

Really???? That seems pretty low... My teacher has given me A's in some essays and C's in the other!
Little bit less scared now the Grade boundaries are so low!

Does anyone have a link for the jan 2012 past paper or knows what the Kite Runner questions for january 2012 were?

Thanks for the insight I shall add that in And resources for Small Island are scarce on the internet I have hardly anything to revise from. Its all what I'm coming out with from my head :\ I have some Section B essays where theres a paragraph or two on Small Island if you'd like that?

thank you so much! I've attached one I did for Chapter 3 could I possibly ask you for help on Auden's poetry? I'm lost, and have barely any notes for O where are you going, if I could tell you, and O what is that sound!

were you given any particular grade for that essay.

Can you put the links up on here? Thanks!

My teacher said that all of the parts have come up, so it could be on absolutely any of them.

Will do in a bit .. Need to download them from my google documents account first.

Do you know what narrative voice is? Or what things we have to talk about if a question on that comes up