by melaniewp | May 7, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, Poetry, Simon Armitage
Basic AnalysisThis is a poem about murder. A man is telling us about an incident when someone, possibly a relative or friend, came to stay unexpectedly. The man who comes to stay, who is never named, is having a mental breakdown. Then he starts to annoy his host (the...
by melaniewp | Apr 30, 2013 | Animal Farm, Exam Essays, GCSE, Model Essays, Napoleon, OCR, Snowball
Compare the ways Orwell portrays Snowball and Napoleon: A – A* grade Model EssaySnowball and Napoleon are the two leaders who compete for power in the early to mid-section of Animal Farm. The two pigs emerge as the leaders of this apparently egalitarian society...
by melaniewp | Apr 24, 2013 | Carol Ann Duffy, Exam Essays, GCSE, Havisham, IGCSE, Model Essays, Poetry
Essay Question Set:Explore how relationships are presented in Havisham.In Havisham, we see love gone wrong. Carol Ann Duffy re-imagines Dicken’s eternal Spinster in this dramatic first person monologue where Miss Havisham makes exclamations –...
by melaniewp | Apr 23, 2013 | A Passage to Africa, Edexcel Language Anthology, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays
Brace yourself! It’s a grim text and the essay’s equally grim…How does George Alagiah create a sense of pity in this extract?In this extract, Alagiah creates a sense of pity through emotive language in lists and rules of three to create a sense...
by melaniewp | Apr 22, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Of Mice and Men, OMAM Essays
ATeacherWrites.comOf Mice and Men is a great American novel that deals with the American Dream and the trauma of the Great Depression. The location is Salinas, California, an agricultural area full of migrant workers. Steinbeck depicts the place, and the lifestyle in...
by melaniewp | Apr 21, 2013 | Cambridge, Exam Essays, IGCSE, Model Essays, Poetry, Summer Farm, The Cockroach
Question set:Explore how both poems deal with the theme of Identity.It’s hard to figure out what is meant by the word ‘identity’, but it can be summed up in these poems as ‘thinking about the meaning of life, sense of self, life as a journey,...
