AQA English Literature B exam - 17/01/2011

I hope so! I was talking to my Lit teacher today and she said that the only topic that hadn't come up for Section B was destination. I pray to God it doesn't come up.

What is destination? Isn't that like end product or something? or am I missing something? I have never heard of this topic. I'm thinking it's something similair to endings, which came up last year..... Or is it purpose or something? please enlighten me cause I'm panicing!! one topic I haven't revised at all.

Best way to tackle section A)B) - is to first determine whether you agree/disagee with the statement. Then you have to pick some textual evidence which supports your argument. You kinda have to take a holistic approach to the question - consider why different people will have different interpretations. Try to specifically include "in light of a feminist/marxist/religious/psychoanalytical reading, readers may be guided to the conclusion....." then evaluate, why that particular reading would be the best one. Make subtle links to your context throughout - some questions you'll find it easy, others you wont. Providing - you have a decent focus on the task/explore the strengths and weaknesses of different interpretations + link to context - you should get at least 14/15.

Hope that helped mate!

Yeah, I think that's what it is. I'm unclear on its meaning also which is why I don't want it to come up :/

WAIT WHAT? You have nothing for setting on Auden/Rossetti? Let me sort this out.

GOBLIN MARKET

- Parallel world, common market yet has goblins adding to the fairytale aspect. Link this to Rossetti’s intended form/audience
- Universal countryside to make message universal
- Lack of men suggests they are not needed, link to Lizzie saving Laura

COUSIN KATE
- Typical rural setting reinforces the idea that this could happen to everyone

1st SEPT
- Dive bar on 52nd street – detached and away from the war enabling open minding
- America was in its isolationist period/phase
- Cannot escape the war with jazz music (this was a by-product of WW1)
- Athens was the birthplace of democracy and lost this for a while acting as a warning to the reader to learn from past mistakes
- Everybody knows New York City so it is a universal setting, especially as it is a capital of the world etc.

I DON'T WANT SYMBOLISM. I WILL CRY.

I very much enjoyed your ramble! Thanks so much! I don't see how you won't get a really good grade! Have you got any more stuff on Chapter 6 for Gatsby? I don't seem to have much, annoyingly -_-

LOL - if only you were an examiner

Got my notes - for chapter 6 before i start rambling again, remember you need to have a pretty sharp focus. A common mistake alot of us make is - try and adress every narrative method (setting, openings, narrative voice, characters, time blah blah blah) - pick the 'salient' features. But for the whole chapter - this is what i have:

- Flashback - provides a backstory, deepens readers understanding on Gatsby's character - then go further - structurally: just before chapter 7 and the real action takes place. Without the backstory, would we really feel the same way about Gatsby? Would we like him?
- "Sprang from his platonic conception of himself" - 'sprang' shows progession, 'platonic' and 'conception' are oxymoronic, contradict eachother.
- Gatsby talks about that whole "you cant turn back time" "why of course you can" - i kinda think the guy's deluded, but he has dreams, so gotta give him props!
- Fitzgerald explores social class through the way he describes the 'sloanes'.

All i have

Yeah, I think that's what it is. I'm unclear on its meaning also which is why I don't want it to come up :/

Just had a discussion with my Elit teacher, and he kind of agrees with me but only cautiously.... I stressed that destinations is basically endings and he agreed, so yeah, it might not come up. He told me to revise it anyway, just in case..... Endings came up last year.

FAANKS, POPAT! Just come do my paper, k?

ACTUALLY, NEITHER DO I NOW. Just realized that while I have lots of symbolism for Kite Runner and a little bit for Rossetti, I has nothing for Auden D: RIGHT, WHY CAN'T THEY JUST PRODUCE A LIST OF POSSIBILITIES? There's literally anything they could ask D: Well, bar what they have already! ...Or is there a list I don't know about? :|

You can come and do my paper!

Just had a discussion with my Elit teacher, and he kind of agrees with me but only cautiously.... I stressed that destinations is basically endings and he agreed, so yeah, it might not come up. He told me to revise it anyway, just in case..... Endings came up last year.

They could ask the question 'How do the authors create their intended destination in the texts you have studied?'. I think is quite different to endings, I see destination as 'morals/messages etc'. For example you could talk about how in the kite runner Hosseini challenges the stereotype that good aesthetics correlates to good nature, as all the purest characters have deformities of some sort. When Amir finally redeems himself he is beaten nearly beyond recognition by Assef; when his natures changes from good to bad, his appearance does the opposite.

If we're talking about destinations, my teacher said this morning she believed it to be what journey we are taken on through the text and how, aswell as the overall message. So uh yeah. Confusing :|

How much are you all able to write for each question, out of curiosity? Of normal, A4 paper that is?

And how are we all feeling about the exam? I'm veryyyy scared. Terrified, even.

I have average size writing and I can only bang out a page and a half for section A questions, section B is about 3 pages?

I'm absolutely crappin' myself - very attractive...

Yeah Section A questions for me I can only do about a page and a half :| But section B I'm sort of avoiding practising with the knowledge that I KNOW I SHALL DO BAD.

SO LIKE I SAID, TERRIFIED

Just had a discussion with my Elit teacher, and he kind of agrees with me but only cautiously.... I stressed that destinations is basically endings and he agreed, so yeah, it might not come up. He told me to revise it anyway, just in case..... Endings came up last year.

ONIT! ...An E cool with you?

Remember you only need like 44/84 for a B in the exam, which breaks down to 11/21 (ai) 11/21 (aii) and 22/42 (b) - which grade wise is C C D. To get into band 4, jus commenting on specific aspects will be enough, I jus need to explore and evaluate to get higher than my previous 44 - easier said than done

Have you got any notes and quotes for symbolism in kite runner and gatsby?