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Oxford Cambridge and RSAA Level English Literature
H472/02 Comparative and contextual study
Thursday 22 June 2017 – Morning
Time allowed: 2 hours and 30 minutes
* 6 8 2 9 1 8 7 3 0 0 *
You must have:
• the OCR 12-page Answer Booklet
(OCR12 sent with general stationery)
INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Answer two questions from the topic you have chosen.
• Complete the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Write your answer to each question on the Answer Booklet.
• Additional paper may be used if required but you must clearly show your candidate
number, centre number and question number(s).
• Write the number of each question you have answered in the margin.
• Do not write in the barcodes.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 60.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• This document consists of 16 pages.
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Answer two questions from the topic you have chosen.
American Literature 1880–1940
Answer Question 1.
Then answer one question from 2(a), 2(b) or 2(c). You should spend 1 hour and 15 minutes on each
question.
1 Write a critical appreciation of this passage, relating your discussion to your reading of American
Literature 1880–1940. [30]
He made everyone on the farm work as they had never worked
before and yet there was no joy in the work. If things went well
they went well for Jesse and never for the people who were his
dependents. Like a thousand other strong men who have come into
the world here in America in these later times, Jesse was but half 5
strong. He could master others but he could not master himself.
The running of the farm as it had never been run before was easy
for him. When he came home from Cleveland where he had been
in school, he shut himself off from all of his people and began to
make plans. He thought about the farm night and day and that 10
made him successful. Other men on the farms about him worked
too hard and were too tired to think, but to think of the farm and to
be everlastingly making plans for its success was a relief to Jesse.
It partially satisfied something in his passionate nature. Immediately
after he came home he had a wing built on the old house and in a 15
large room facing the west he had windows that looked into the
barnyard and other windows that looked off across the fields. By
the window he sat down to think. Hour after hour and day after day
he sat and looked over the land and thought out his new place in
life. The passionate burning thing in his nature flamed up and his 20
eyes became hard. He wanted to make the farm produce as no
farm in his state had ever produced before and then he wanted
something else. It was the indefinable hunger within that made his
eyes waver and that kept him always more and more silent before
people. He would have given much to achieve peace and in him 25
was a fear that peace was the thing he could not achieve.
All over his body Jesse Bentley was alive. In his small frame was
gathered the force of a long line of strong men. He had always been
extraordinarily alive when he was a small boy on the farm and later
when he was a young man in school. In the school he had studied 30
and thought of God and the Bible with his whole mind and heart. As
time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think
of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows.
He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and
as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they 35
lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such
a clod. Although in his absorption in himself and in his own destiny
he was blind to the fact that his young wife was doing a strong
woman’s work even after she had become large with child and that
she was killing herself in his service, he did not intend to be unkind 40
to her.
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio (1922)
© OCR 2017 H472/02 Jun17
, 3
In your answer to Question 2, you must compare at least two texts from the following list.
At least one of these must be taken from the two texts given at the top of the list in bold type.
F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady
Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
Willa Cather: My Ántonia
Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
Richard Wright: Native Son
Either
2 (a) F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
‘Characters in pursuit of money lie at the heart of much American literature.’
By comparing The Great Gatsby with at least one other text prescribed for this topic, discuss
how far you agree with this view.
[30]
Or
(b) John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
‘American literature often depicts a society which is cruel to its most vulnerable members.’
By comparing The Grapes of Wrath with at least one other text prescribed for this topic,
discuss how far you agree with this view.
[30]
Or
(c) ‘Much American literature is characterised by the importance of hope in adversity.’
By comparing at least two texts prescribed for this topic, discuss how far you have found this
to be the case.
In your answer you must include discussion of either The Great Gatsby and/or The Grapes
of Wrath.
[30]
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