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ENG2611 Assignment 2 2024 (858764) - 25 June 2024
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ENG2611 Assignment 2 2024 (858764) - 25 June 2024
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ENG2611Assignment 2 2024
(858764) - 25 June
2024
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Text A
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This
story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London
during the war because of the air-raids. They were sent to the house of an old Professor
who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two
miles from the nearest post office. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a
housekeeper called Mrs. Macready and three servants. (Their names were Ivy, Margaret
and Betty, but they do not come into the story much.) He himself was a very old man with
shaggy white hair, which grew over most of his face as well as on his head, and they liked
him almost at once; but on the first evening when he came out to meet them at the front
door he was so odd-looking that Lucy (who was the youngest) was a little afraid of him, and
Edmund (who was the next youngest) wanted to laugh and had to keep on pretending he
was blowing his nose to hide it. As soon as they had said good night to the Professor and
gone upstairs on the first night, the boys came into the girls’ room and they all talked it
over. 3
1. Would you consider this extract to be an example of children’s literature? Why? (2
marks)
2. Summarise the plot of this extract in one sentence. (2 marks)
3. We could state that the author has developed one character more than the others.
Identify this character and explain why this statement is true. (4 marks)
4. Do you think that the extract would be relevant to Foundation/Intermediate Phase EFAL
readers? In your response, you should consider the theme of the extract, and you should
explain which aspects of the extract you think would be relevant to
Foundation/Intermediate Phase EFAL readers and which aspects you think might be less
relevant to them. (4 marks)
5. Identify and explain 4 stereotypes found in this extract. (8 marks) 6. Write a short
paragraph of between 100-150 words in which you explain five changes that you would
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