English Literature A

I am doing English Literature A Foundation Tier and i am looking at past papers and the question is:

Compare How Parents feel about children in Growing Up and Your Shoes

Compare:
How the parents feel about the children in the stories
How the writer presents these feelings

Could someone please give me a basic structure like how many paragraphs i need to do and what i have to write about in each paragraph?

Many Thanks Lucozadee

Reply 1

Lucozadee

Can anyone help please? also how do structure your literature essay i know you obvisouly have a introduction and conclusion but what about the middle bit, i urgently need help i have the exam on the 23rd any help would be very much appreciated.

Many Thanks Lucozadee

Reply 2

FireDeuce

Well, I haven't read these poems and I don't have my anthology right now, but a few general tips are that you need around 4-6 points in different paragraphs, always relating back to the question.

Make a statement about one thing in the poem that suggests something about how the parents feel about these children, and in the same paragraph write about what they do that shows you that.

And just keep doing that over.

Reply 3

Lucozadee

Thank you for that :smile:

, have any more people got any tips or an example essay they could send me?

Reply 4

Lucozadee

FireDeuce

Also would each point be about both poems or just one?

Reply 5

FireDeuce

Lucozadee

Also would each point be about both poems or just one?

Both poems together

Reply 6

Excalibur

An alternative is that you could talk about one poem in depth first, then introduce your next poem at depth, but keep referring back to your first one in comparison. Then perhaps have a paragraph or two mentioning common aspects between the poem. That method sounds a bit complicated but it works better for me.