Part Three: the truth and the end (Chapters 22 and 23) — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Part Three: the truth and the end (Chapters 22 and 23)
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Kathy and Tommy's visit to Madame, Miss Emily's account of Hailsham, the Gallery and the deferrals, Tommy's scream of rage on the way back,
his fourth donation and the end of Kathy's time as his carer, and Kathy alone at the end.
Key quotations: 'true or not', 'She went on gazing at us for a moment, then took a deep breath', 'had souls at all', 'we sheltered you during those years', 'Yes, in many ways we fooled you', 'Marie-Claude has given everything for you', 'We're all afraid of you', 'I saw a new world coming rapidly', 'But a harsh, cruel world', 'It seemed like we were holding onto each other', 'swept away into the night', 'wherever it was I was supposed to be'.
Structure: the long speeches in which Miss Emily and Madame finally explain Hailsham, and the quiet ending in which Kathy stops by a fence in flat, empty fields before driving on.
OCR's 2023 extract: Miss Emily explaining that deferrals never existed, set against an unseen shocking discovery; her hesitation and self-justifying language, and Kathy and Tommy's stunned, passive response.
Context: the Morningdale scandal, and a public that wanted cures for cancer and other illnesses without asking where the organs came from.
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.
