How Priestley presents Eric, and how the character develops across the text: his drinking, guilt and change.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive', 'Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?', 'I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty', 'You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble', 'you killed her'.
His drinking, his responsibility for Eva, and his change set against his parents'.
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.
