Act 3 — An Inspector Calls — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Act 3
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Eric's confession, the Inspector's final speech, the family's reactions and the final telephone call.
Key quotations: 'You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble', 'you killed her', 'One Eva Smith has gone', 'We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.', 'fire and blood and anguish', 'I'd give thousands', 'I suppose we're all nice people now', 'It frightens me the way you talk', 'the famous younger generation who know it all', 'guiltily and dumbfounded'.
The false ending, the final telephone call, and different readings of who the Inspector is.
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.
