WJEC English Literature GCSE 18th and 22nd May.

If Maycomb setting is one, there is so much you could say! The house as a symbol of somewhere Scout and Jem are taught by Atticus morales etc. The school where Scout is needing to be dressed as a "lady", and all the issues at school that come with it, Walter Cunningham etc. Then you've got the courthouse, my favorite quote of which is the one about "ancient Greek revival columns clashed with a 19th century clocktower housing a rusty and unreliable instrument" or something along those lines, you've also got the "all men are created equal" in court quote. Then you can talk contextually about how it is in the deep south and how it was very racist in the 30s etc and how the book was published in the 60s when there was a black power movement going on. If that question comes up then there is so much you can say!

Some that I have:

- He's pessimistic towards himself as he knows he doesn't have much use on the ranch & is in denial about a lot of things incl. his dog
- He's influenced easily and is oppressed by the upper members of the hierarchy on the ranch
- He also represents the theme of loneliness after his dog dies
- He cares a lot about The American Dream to the point where he will defend it in front of a person he's normally fearful of (Curley's wife)
- He wants to have control - "He was the master of the situation" - over something in his life as every other decision is decided by society and the members of the ranch (again about the scene with him, Curley's wife and Crooks)
- He's selfish, though I don't have much to back this up with

How should we structure the answers for the question and get full marks?
Need help asap really worried about this

these are very good points, would you mind if you could elaborate more on the points, would help alot man !

Of Mice and Men is tomorrow along with unseen poetry. For poetry they'll ask you to analyse the similarities and differences between the two poems & they'll give you some sort of checklist in the question. There's an a, b and c part to Of Mice and Men. The a part is an extract question worth 10 marks. The b and c parts are the essay questions and you only need to do 1, and it's worth 20 marks. One of the questions will usually be on a character and the other will usually be on a theme, although it's rumoured that there could be two themes this year.

Lord of the Flies and Blood Brothers (A View From The Bridge for me) is on Friday and it's the exact same layout as Of Mice and Men for each text

I mean I'd like to but it'd be giving all of my A* analysis away

And I was going to do more revision now but I'll give you some quotes! I'm not going to reiterate the points so just match the numbers up:

1) use of double negatives - "don't never"
2) "softly and hopelessly"; "edge of his bunk"
3) "no relatives nor nothing"
4) "We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not"; "leave my share to you guys"
5) "He was the master of the situation"; "he had control of himself"
6) "poor bastard" - only thinking about Lennie and his consequences, not the fact that a woman was actually dead (could link in with the unimportance of women)

**** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** this is the ****ing end of the **** line for **** and when **** if **** happens

help us , give ur a* points dont be so selfih

Dude, what are you getting so mad at? What has changed with poetry?

I'm not mad, I'm stressing out, I can't do this ****. Basically apparently WJEC, being the piece of ****ty ****s that they are have added harder ****ing poems with less to analyse and **** like that

Lmao I just made this account I have no idea how all this works but yh does anyone know if the checklist for poetry is in the exam?

Lmao I just made this account I have no idea how all this works but yh does anyone know if the checklist for poetry is in the exam?

My teacher said it's been taken out of the higher paper (I'm assuming you mean the 1) talk about context, 2) talk about ideas, 3) talk about literary devices etc

Also, how many points do you have to make in the extract q and whats the structure for the unseen poetry essay response??

Somebody on the thread said that Curley's wife had come up as an essay question on the Jan 2015 paper, but the papers haven't been published on WJEC's website so nobody really knows if that's true or not. That's why it's rumoured. I'd revise her just in case. But a lot of the answers to your questions are already on the thread - just read through the pages