A-level
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Paper 2 Exploring Conflict
Wednesday 5 June 2024 Morning Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
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Section A
Writing about Society
Answer on one text in this section.
Answer both questions on your chosen set text.
Either
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
0 1 Read the section of Chapter 2,
from
‘Ken Thompson, the owner of an Anchorage auto-body shop, Gordon Samel, his
employee, and their friend Ferdie Swanson, a construction worker, set out for the bus on
September 6, 1992, stalking moose.’
to
‘You better call the troopers. There’s a man back in the bus by the Sushana. Looks like
he’s been dead for a while.’
This describes the finding of Chris’s body by a group of local Alaskans and their
notification of it to the State Troopers.
Recast the base text into an account that Ferdie Swanson gives to an Alaska State
Trooper about the discovery of Chris’s body.
In your transformation you should consider:
• Swanson and his friends’ reactions to the discovery of Chris’s body during their
intended hunting trip
• his interactions with the state trooper and his impressions of Chris’s final days in the
bus.
You should write about 300 words.
[25 marks]
and
0 2 Write a commentary explaining the decisions you have made in transforming the base
text for this new account and the effects of reshaping Krakauer’s original description.
In your commentary you should:
• consider how you have used language to shape your intended meaning
• demonstrate the connections between the base text and your transformed text
• structure your commentary clearly to express your ideas.
You should write about 400 words.
[30 marks]
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or
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House – Kate Summerscale
0 3 Read the section of Chapter 18,
from
‘In the summer of 1881 Whicher fell ill with gastritis and a stomach ulcer, and on 29 June,
after his stomach wall was perforated, he died, aged sixty-six.’
to
‘This love of flowers had originated with Jack Whicher’s father, the Camberwell gardener,
and seemed now to have been passed on through the first sixty years of the detective
force, from man to man.’
This describes the lives and careers of the detectives Jack Whicher and Dolly Williamson
after the Road Hill House murder case had concluded.
Recast the base text into an account that a detective inspector, who worked alongside
Whicher and Williamson at Scotland Yard, gives to a new police officer.
In your transformation you should consider:
• the detective inspector’s observations about the impact of the murder case on Whicher
and Williamson
• the detective inspector’s own experiences of policing and views about the detective
force of the time.
You should write about 300 words.
[25 marks]
and
0 4 Write a commentary explaining the decisions you have made in transforming the base
text for this new account and the effects of reshaping Summerscale’s original description.
In your commentary you should:
• consider how you have used language to shape your intended meaning
• demonstrate the connections between the base text and your transformed text
• structure your commentary clearly to express your ideas.
You should write about 400 words.
[30 marks]
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or
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
0 5 Read the section of Chapter 6,
from
‘It was a halt, too, in my association with his affairs.’
to
‘Tom and I shook hands, the rest of us exchanged a cool nod, and they trotted quickly
down the drive, disappearing under the August foliage just as Gatsby, with hat and light
overcoat in hand, came out the front door.’
This describes an unexpected visit by Tom Buchanan, Mr Sloane and an unnamed lady
to Gatsby’s house.
Recast the base text into an account that Mr Sloane gives to another West Egg resident
about this meeting with Gatsby.
In your transformation you should consider:
• Mr Sloane’s feelings about meeting Gatsby and his views of Gatsby’s character
• Mr Sloane’s own status within the wider social world of West Egg.
You should write about 300 words.
[25 marks]
and
0 6 Write a commentary explaining the decisions you have made in transforming the base
text for this new account and the effects of reshaping Fitzgerald’s original description.
In your commentary you should:
• consider how you have used language to shape your intended meaning
• demonstrate the connections between the base text and your transformed text
• structure your commentary clearly to express your ideas.
You should write about 400 words.
[30 marks]
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