How Pinnock presents Brod, and how the character develops across the text: the family friend from Jamaica who drinks, longs for home and fears deportation after paying for citizenship, challenges Enid over her daughters' heritage, and tells Del the truth about her father.
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: 'touch me hat whenever me sees a picture a the queen', 'a British subject', 'kick me outta the country', 'This is my home', 'You teaching these children all wrong', 'They going forget where they come from', 'the land a wood and water', 'suck blood outta the island, suck them dry', 'This pastor must be a very high man', 'No, it doesn't bother some man, does it, Brod?', 'After everything we been through it hard to find you have any love left', 'I yearn for them every day'.
Brod as a foil to Enid and a spur to Viv: his anger at the British state, his lost faith and his drinking, his questions about the girls' heritage, and a friendship with Enid that goes back to childhood.
OCR's specimen mark scheme suggests Brod's citizenship speech in Scene 2 as a moment of not belonging, and its 2025 examiners saw his account of Del's father used well for tension.
Quotations are short phrases of a few words, the way you would learn them for a closed-book exam.
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.
