How Priestley presents Sheila, and how the character develops across the text: from privileged daughter to a young woman who accepts responsibility.
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: 'very pleased with life and rather excited', 'But these girls aren't cheap labour', 'I'll never, never do it again to anybody', 'build up a kind of wall between us and that girl', 'Why - you fool - he knows', 'the wonderful Fairy Prince', 'I suppose we're all nice people now', 'It frightens me the way you talk'.
Her change from 'Mummy' to independence, and the ring as a symbol.
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.
