The Breadwinner: narrative — Eduqas GCSE Film Studies C670
Eduqas GCSE Film Studies · C670
The Breadwinner: narrative
The Breadwinner
What you need to know
Plot and story: a story within the story, with the tale and Parvana's life told in parallel, each moving the other on.
Structure: the father's arrest as the inciting incident, plot points, and the climax at the prison and on the road.
Techniques: an opening in the middle of events, withholding what happened to Parvana's brother until the tale reveals it, and an open ending.
Characters and their functions (Parvana, her father, Shauzia, Idrees, Razaq), themes of storytelling, courage and gender, and how the narrative engages us.
A worked answer to a practice Section A question on narrative, part by part: the short parts that ask you to identify and explain, and the 15-mark final part on a key sequence.
How to answer each part: the marks, and what the short identify and explain parts need as well as the extended answer, since naming a technique instead of a specific example from the film loses marks there. Practice questions to try, each headed 'Practice question' with its marks.
Quote only short lines of dialogue you're sure of, a few words at a time, and base every point on what happens in the finished film.
