AQA GCSE English Lit 2014 - OMAM/AIC

i said for the gender question:

mrs birling sitting on the otherside of birling: there is a strong gender imbalance as mr and mrs birling are married but the fact that they are sitting seperate shows how strong the gender imbalance was, that it even broke through a bond of marraige.

Sheila is half playful half serious: women are not fully anything, they have to break them selfs into 2 just to be able to fit through the narrow gaps of society where a woman will slightly be considered.

Eva smith: connotations to Eve in the garden of eden. The fact that Eve came after Adam shows that women come after men in the society of 1912s


very different to what u guys wrote haha

hi again i wrote about how Sheila is a women who shares some traites as her mother as as a women she is only amrrying Gerald for the good of family and not for love however she changed and decides becomes somewhat socially responsible hwever at the end she considers taking Geralds ring back symbolising that she could go back to her old ways f just being a possesion like the women are shown. Also i talked about jealousy between women such as Sybil and Eva and how the men are portrayed to be foolsh with dramatic irony.

we are both getting A*s....

For OMAM for part a I wrote that George walks in front of Lennie to suggest he is the leader, that they wear similar clothes but are very different in personality. How it seems as though it is a father and son relationship, and that Lennie is content and cares and wants to look after George but doesn't in the same way that George looks after Lennie.
For part b I wrote that George and Lennies relationship is unique as everyone is lonely and how many migrant workers were by themselves travelling from ranch to ranch, that George doesn't appreciate his friendship with Lennie. That Crooks doesn't really have a relationship or that it is a negative relationship because of racial inequality. Curleys wife and Curley aren't happy etc. Finally that all the relationships split and end in death, and everyone is lonely showing that inevitably that was what it was like in 1930s America.

Hopefully ! How did you find it?

i did the same as you for crooks. i used mr bruffs interpret by saying that we dont actually see crooks into later into the novella which suggests that we have a prejudged opinion about him because of what the other characters say which means that it shows what it was like back in those days when he was prejudged because of his skin. I also wrote about him being neglected because of his skin etc.. and him having a crooked back because of all the racism and abuse he carried on it.

What's the ums points for the lit ca?

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Wow that sounds really good! I didn't mind the OMAM question actually which I was surprised at!

I don't study AIC, but for Of Mice and Men I did:

Part a.) I analysed "single file" which represents how restrictive their relationship is, how linear it is, how george is the clear leader. I talked about how they wear the same clothes but are in fact "opposite", showing that from the outside they try to look like the general ranch workers but in fact theres much more to them than the superficial aspects (bit flimsy). I also did the bit where Lennie "almost runs over" Geroge, which shows Lennie's destructive nature and how he never really knows when to stop - it is George who has to get to him to stop, foreshadowing later events like when he kills Curley's Wife, as George is not there to stop him. Finally I did a more obvious point about them relying on eachother as George tells Lennie to stop drinking the water.

Part b.) First focused on Curley and his Wife. "So I married Curley" - very short sentence, abrubt, shows how she didnt marry her for love but just as a means of revenge. No real emotion. Never seen together. "Ostrich feathers" symbolic of how Curley's Wife is trapped in the relationship as an Ostrich is a flightless bird. Then contrasted this with how George and Lennie have a real caring relationship, but is described by Slim as "stringing along". Analysed the idea of string, which is easily cut, as well as a ball of string running out foreshadowing the impending doom of their relationship. Finally concluded that the three main relationships in the story (George/Lennie, Curley/Wife, Candy/Dog) are all destroyed, which is Steinbeck's way of showing that survival and companionship were not possible in the harsh environment of the Great Depression. Had a few other social bits woven in there too.

Sorry, bit wordy.

Wait a minuttttte, did you somehow do your examination on a computer? Impossible

I'm pretty sure it's out of 50 UMS.

Yes it is, and the good thing with AQA is that they publish the conversion so you can see what UMS you got:

http://www.aqa.org.uk/exams-administration/about-results/uniform-mark-scale/convert-marks-to-ums

35/40 for Shakespeare and 36/40 for Poetry CA.

35(S) - 36(P) - 45 UMS
36(S) - 37(P) - 46 UMS
37(S) - 38(P) - 48 UMS
38(S) - 39(P) - 49 UMS
39 or 40 (S) - 40(P) - 50 UMS

same do you mean sides or pages?