GCSE AQA English Literature - June 2016 *Official Thread*

Ok, sure I'll go through some of my points

Candy: “grinning with delight” Candy offers money within a day of knowing George and Lennie, which reflects his desperate desire to leave the ranch before he “gets the can”. CW destroys dream "darkening gradually" << Pathetic fallacy is suggestive of slow, painful end

Curley's Wife: “Ostrich feathers" harks back to her dream of performing on stage. It was her dream to be "in the movies". Her dream to be in the limelight is unrealistic "sunshine in the door was cut off" casts shadows on men's dreams/position.

George/Lennie: "we got a future". They strive for a better life better than the ranch life. "Up toward the highway" Rising imagery,New start for george < new opportunity to obtain american dream.

Haven't really got much time to type anything else but hope that was useful

They can always repeat, June 2014 had George and Lennie, and so did June 2013 (or close to it)

if it was Carlson I would want to take his damn luger gun and use it myself

Thank you this is really helpful! Good luck for tomorrow (I am completely stressing out )!

Don't misunderstand, I never once stated that it's impossible for other characters to appear- I just simply stated what was likely to appear

The conch may come up or any other symbol - I know in the last they have had clothing and the beast. Any relationship may come up to as they have had Piggy and Ralph before but maybe Simon for a character?

Carlson is pretty easy though; he's like the other ranch workers - isolated and lonely, he doesn't understand friendship or relationships (like George and Lennie), which is why he is able to kill Candy's dog so easily as he doesn't understand it. It is at a time where the fittest survive.

Is there a possibility of sam and eric or roger and maurice if you know?

But there's no perceptive points... he's so boring. I haven't learned my points for him either. Thanks for the survival of the fittest point

Roger is possible, I've not seen him in any past papers.

Well if he comes up then part (b) is probably going to be isolation or something related to the physically strongest surviving.

Part (a) you just pick out quotes and write stuff about them.

Some predicted questions here done by my school. For AIC and OMAM. The OMAM one is quite picky but my teachers reckon that as it is the last year, the question could be about theme rather than character. Other OMAM predictions include nature and Curley.

Yeah true. If it were strengths would you talk about Curley, Slim, Carlson, maybe Crooks (becuase of his high level of intelligence)??? Thanku for the reassurance

Some predicted questions here done by my school. For AIC and OMAM. The OMAM one is quite picky but my teachers reckon that as it is the last year, the question could be about theme rather than character. Other OMAM predictions include nature and Curley.

Strengths as in what? Bit too vague.

oh wow this thread takes me back to english gcse; I will never forget how stressed I was for this exam. The week before I got an E in a mock exam we did lol. Managed to get an A though,
Now I'm doing English lit a-level it makes me miss this more than ever
Good luck everyone!

Thank you I'm so stressed