(UNIFINISHED) GCSE English Literature Paper 2 Quotations (short stories + poems)

chemistry - ralph descriptors - predatory, manipulative attitude

‘barked’, ‘pouncing on something’

chemistry - ralph imposing on family, progressing relationship between mum & ralph

ralph as an ‘ever more permanent lodger’

chemistry - mum lashing out at grandfather, excluding him

‘you’re ruining our meal - do you want to take yours out to your shed?!’

chemistry - ralph taking over, motif of food/meals

‘the house where ralph now lorded it, tucking into bigger and bigger meals, was a menacing place’

chemistry - narrator’s epiphany, grandfather’s death was mum’s fault

‘suicide can be murder’

MPTT - carla defining herself by her job, role in school/life marked by salary, job as her identity - only seen for economic value

‘part-time catering staff, that’s me, £3.89 per hour’

MPTT - father’s condescending attitude, implying that culture/heritage/language is unimportant

‘what use is polish ever going to be to her?’

MPTT - carla’s insecurity, lack of social mobility, importance of her job - defined by it, feels separate to steve

‘me, carla carter, part-time catering assistant, writing to him about poetry’

MPTT - carla’s response to polish, affect on her

‘it went through me like a knife through butter … I felt my lips move. There were words in my mouth’

family supper - negative description of father

‘a formidable-looking man with a large stony jaw and furious black eyebrows’

family supper - father’s traditional gender roles, dislike of doing domestic jobs

about cooking: ‘hardly a skill I’m proud of … kikuko, come here and help’

family supper - dad patronising + downplaying kikuko’s maturity, traditional gender roles

‘she’s a good girl’

invisible mass - classroom setting, hortense being singled out, fear

‘I stand in the middle of the room, surrounded by anxious faces’

invisible mass - classroom setting, shared fear

‘the stench of fear is in everyone’s nostrils’

invisible mass - hortense forgotten about in the back row

‘hidden, disposed of, dispatched to the invisibility of the back row’

invisible mass - classroom prison metaphor/imagery

‘the walls have been breached. the jailers are quick to realise that this battle is lost’

invisible mass - parents - separation, distance, unfamiliarity

‘these newly acquired people’

invisible mass - disbelief & strong feelings when learning about black history

‘we move back and forth between anger, total disbelief and downright outrage’

invisible mass - closeness to historical characters they learn about

‘they all come from our own back yard’

invisible mass - critique of eurocentric education

‘frozen information’

invisible mass - victorious ending, overcoming obstacles but not forgetting heritage

‘voices are raised, claiming, proclaiming, learning the new language in dis here england’

ozymandias - statue fallen into dissaray

‘two vast and trunkless legs of stone’

ozymandias - head of statue sinking into insignificance

‘half sunk, a shattered visage lies’

ozymandias - unpleasant description of ozymandias - facial expression

‘sneer of cold command’

ozymandias - bold confident statement, irony

‘my name is ozymandias, king of kings / look on my works, ye mighty, and dispair!’

london - control of rich over poor, powerlessness of people

‘i wander through each chartered street / near where the chartered thames does flow’

london - authority restricting human behaviour, mental imprisionment

‘in every voice: in every ban / the mind-forged manacles I hear’

london - pity for victims of conflict/power struggles, criticism of authority

‘the hapless soldier’s sigh / runs in blood down palace walls’

london - destruction & loss of innocence, social corruption

‘the youthful harlot’s curse / blasts the new-born infant’s tear’

COTLB - orders, critique of command/leadership

‘“forward, the light brigade!” / was there man dismay’d? / … some one had blunder’d’

COTLB - powerless but heroism of soldiers

‘theirs not to make reply / theirs not to reason why / theirs but to do and die’

COTLB - soldiers’ duty to listen to orders & die, biblical reference, soldiers have no identity

‘into the valley of death / rode the six hundred’

COTLB - battle - violent, noisy, destructive

‘volley’d and thunder’d / storm’d at with shot and shell’

remains - powerlessness, orders

‘we get sent out’

remains - expecting the worst from the looter, unsureness, turmoil

‘probably armed, possibly not’

remains - description of killing the looter, visions

‘I swear / I see every round as it rips through his life

remains - trauma, visions

‘he’s here in my head when I close my eyes’

war photographer - violence of war, impact on children, photographer’s trauma

‘fields which don’t explode beneath the feet / of running children in a nightmare heat’

war photographer - critique of western attitudes to war, amount of pictures / suffering

‘a hundred agonies in black-and-white / from which his editor will pick out five or six / for sunday’s supplement’

COMH - impacts of eurocentric education, othering & separation to establishment

‘dem tell me / dem tell me / wha dem want to tell me’

COMH - impacts of eurocentric education - loss of identity

‘blind me to me own identity’

COMH - happy ending, change to poem’s trajectory

‘but now I checking out me own history / I carving out me identity’

chrysanthemums - nature vs humans, industrialisation, traditional ideas of home

‘a large bony vine clutched at the house, as if to claw down the tiled roof’

chrysanthemums: elizabeth’s bitterness, gender roles, powerlessness of women

‘”very likely,” she laughed bitterly, “he gives me twenty-three shillings”’

chrysanthemums: elizabeth’s conviction that walter is at the pub

‘You may depend upon it, he’s seated in the Prince o’ Wales’

chrysanthemums: mr rigley representing the effect of mining on people

‘a wound in which the coal dust remained blue like tattooing’

chrysanthemums: elizabeth’s transactional planning about children

‘they were her business’

chrysanthemums: walter’s death - critique of mining industry & vulnerability of workers

‘shut ‘im in, like a mouse-trap’

darkness out there: opinions of the elderly, dismissal, colloquial lang

‘she’s a dear old thing, all on her own’

darkness out there: description of mrs rutter

‘she seemed composed of circles, a cottage-loaf of a woman … eyes snapped and darted’

darkness out there: reactions to the plain, lack of humanity

‘we cheered, I can tell you’

darkness out there: reactions to the dying soldier, lack of humanity

‘he’s not going to last long, and a good job too, three of them that’ll be’

darkness out there: sandra’s epiphany

‘you could get people all wrong, she realised with alarm’

darkness out there: contrast between idyllic setting vs true darkness

‘flowers sparkle and birds sing but everything is not as it appears, oh no’

who wrote ozymandias

percy bysshe shelley

who wrote london

william blake

who wrote the prelude

william wordsworth

who wrote my last duchess

robert browning

who wrote the charge of the light brigade

alfred lord tennyson

who wrote exposure

wilfred owen

who wrote storm on the island

seamus heaney

who wrote bayonet charge

ted hughes

who wrote remains

simon armitage

who wrote poppies

jane weir

who wrote war photographer

carol ann duffy

who wrote tissue

imtiaz dharker

who wrote the emigrée

carol rumens

who wrote checking out me history

john agard

who wrote kamikaze

beatrice garland