Act 2 — An Inspector Calls — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Act 2
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Gerald and Daisy Renton, Mrs Birling and the charity committee, and the trap closing on Eric.
Key quotations: 'We often do on the young ones. They're more impressionable.', 'build up a kind of wall between us and that girl', 'I didn't install her there so that I could make love to her', 'She was young and pretty and warm-hearted', 'the wonderful Fairy Prince', 'Girls of that class', 'As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!', 'Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility.'.
How Mrs Birling condemns her own son without knowing it, and the act's cliffhanger.
OCR's question on this text has two parts on the same text. Part (a), 20 marks, compares a printed extract from it with an unseen extract of the same genre, and weights your response (AO1) and context (AO3) twice as heavily as language analysis (AO2), where context means the social and cultural situations you can infer from the two extracts and their introductions; an answer on only one of the two extracts cannot go above Level 3. Part (b), 20 marks, explores another moment in the same text from memory, with response and analysis of language, form and structure (AO1 and AO2) equally weighted and no marks for context. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the part it is for.
