English Paper 2 Quotes Mock Exams

MUST update for real exams ngl. This is just pulled together so I remember a couple

Love in Homefire

“There was skittish in her manner. Now very passionate. Now very distant.” (p.g 74)

“And now he was so deep in that everyone but Aneeka was indistinct.” (p.g 83)

“Tie me again. I want to feel my fathers pain.” (p.g 141)

“She had been abused for the crime of daring to love.” (p.g 245)

“The madness of love.” (p.g 227)

Love in God of Small Things

“No dinner, in exchange for Ammu loving her the same as before.” (p.g 113)

“A little less her Ammu loved her.” (p.g 112 but repeated throughout)

Romantic Love: “He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love.” (p.g 19)

“She invoked the love laws.” (p.g 233)

Twins / Family GST

“Forever, Esthappen and Rahel thought of themselves as We.” (p.g 2)

“Physically separate, but with joint identities.” (p.g 2)

“That the emptiness in one twin was only a version of the quietness of the other. That the two things fitted together. Like familiar lovers bodies.” (p.g 20)

Twins / Family Homefire

“[Parvaiz had] never been alone.” (p.g 139)

“Aneeka’s face was unfamiliar to him for the first time in his life.” (p.g 162) 

“You're just a girl. You don’t understand.” Parvaiz to Aneeka - shows effects of Farooq (p.g 142)   

Oppression/gender GST

“Rahel drifted into marriage like a passenger drifts towards an unoccupied chair in an airport lounge.” (p.g 19) 

“What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is also mine.” (p.g 57) 

“Ammu, as a daughter, had no claim to the property. [Chacko] always referred to it as my factory, my pineapples, my pickles. Legally, this was the case.” (p.g 57)

Oppression/Gender homefire

“Girls becoming women was inevitability; for boys, becoming men was ambition.” (p.g 36)

“In the end they were always their fathers sons.” (p.g 51) 

“Men are in charge of women because Allah made one superior to the other.” (p.g 130) “Your women.”

“Take out the trash. Keep Britain clean.” (p.g 219) 

“He was the terrorist son of a terrorist father.” (p.g 171) 

Silence GST

“The history house, where, in the years that followed, the Terror would be buried in a shallow grave.” (p.g 306) 

“The history house had turned its back on Ayemenem.” (p.g 125)

“History in live performance.” (p.g 309)

Silence H

“We didn’t talk about it. We were forbidden to talk about it.” (p.g 50) 

“We’ll be each others secret.” (p.g 73)

“Secrecy gain potency the longer it continued.” (p.g 74)

“He’d grown up knowing that his father was a shameful secret.” (p.g 126)

Trauma GST

“She remembers what the Orange drink 

lemon drink man did to Estha.” (p.g 2)

Trauma H

“Death, you have to live through.” (p.g 94) 

“How he hated his life, his neighbourhood, the inevitability of everything.” (p.g 123)

“Grief obliterated all feelings but grief.” (p.g 183)

“Grief was bad tempered. Grief was kind.” (p.g 184)

Death GST

“Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age.” (p.g 3) REPEATED THROUGHOUT 

The river is a place of death and has repeated imagery representing this (if that makes sense): 

“A salt-water barrage has been built.” 

“The river was no more than a swollen drain now.” (p.g 124) 

Death H

“Death, you have to live through.” (p.g 94)

“Her father, never a living figure in her life, dead before she knew what the word meant.” (p.g 183) 

“Grief was the step-sibling they had grown up with. Unwanted and unwelcome.” (p.g 193)