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Actual 2024 AQA GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE 8702/2R Paper 2 Merged Question Paper + Mark Scheme AQA= GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE Paper 2 Modern texts and poetry Time allowed: 2 hours 15 minutes Materials For this paper you must have: « an AQA 16-page answer book. Instructions e Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Do not use pencil. e Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 8702/2R. e Answer one question from Section A, one question from Section B and both questions in Section C. e You must not use a dictionary. Information e The marks for questions are shown in brackets. e The maximum mark for this paper is 96. « AO4 will be assessed in Section A. There are 4 marks available for AO4 in Section A in addition to 30 marks for answering the question. AO4 assesses the following skills: use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. « There are 30 marks for Section B and 32 marks for Section C. IB/G/Jun23/E4 8702/2R There are no questions printed on this page IB/G/Jun23/8702/2R Either or Section A: Modern prose or drama Answer one question from this section on your chosen text. JB Priestley: An Inspector Calls How does Priestley use the character of Mrs Birling to explore ideas about social class? Write about: ¢ what Mrs Birling says and does « how Priestley presents Mrs Birling. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] How does Priestley use the Inspector to suggest the need for social change in An Inspector Calls? Write about: ¢ what the Inspector says and does « how Priestley presents the Inspector. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] IB/G/Jun23/8702/2R or or Willy Russell: Blood Brothers How does Russell present Mickey's relationships with his mother and with Linda in Blood Brothers? Write about: ¢ Mickey's relationships with his mother and with Linda « how Russell presents Mickey's relationships with his mother and with Linda. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] How does Russell present the effects of poverty in Blood Brothers? Write about: « the effects of poverty that are shown in the play « how Russell presents the effects of poverty. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] Turn over for the next question Turn over > IB/G/Jun23/8702/2R Dennis Kelly: DNA How does Kelly explore the dangers of peer pressure in DNA? Write about: ¢ some of the dangers of peer pressure in the play « how Kelly presents the dangers of peer pressure. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] or How does Kelly present ideas about power and control in DNA? Write about: « examples of power and control in the play « how Kelly presents ideas about power and control. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] Turn over for the next question Turn over > IB/G/Jun23/8702/2R or or Simon Stephens: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time How does Stephens present Christopher’s reactions to shocks and surprises in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time? Write about: ¢ shocks and surprises that Christopher faces « how Stephens presents Christopher's reactions to shocks and surprises. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] How far does Stephens present Judy as a good mother in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time? Write about: « how Judy behaves as a mother « how far Stephens presents Judy as a good mother. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] IB/G/Jun23/8702/2R or or 10 William Golding: Lord of the Flies How does Golding present ideas about leadership in Lord of the Flies? Write about: ¢ examples of leadership in the novel ¢ how Golding presents ideas about leadership. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] How does Golding use the Littluns to explore ideas about trust and fear in Lord of the Flies? Write about: ¢ what the Littluns say and do ¢ how Golding presents the Littluns. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] IB/G/Jun23/8702/2R 10 or or 11 AQA Anthology: Telling Tales How do writers present characters dealing with change in ‘Chemistry’ and in one other story from Telling Tales? Write about: ¢ what the characters dealing with change say and do in the two stories « how the writers present characters dealing with change. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] How do writers present ideas about identity in ‘My Polish Teacher's Tie’ and in one other story from Telling Tales? Write about: « the ideas about identity in the two stories ¢ how the writers present ideas about identity. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] Turn over for the next question Turn over > IB/G/Jun23/8702/2R 11 or or 13 Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go How does Ishiguro present Ruth and Tommy’s romantic relationship in Never Let Me Go? Write about: ¢ what Ruth and Tommy say and do ¢ how Ishiguro presents Ruth and Tommy’s romantic relationship. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] ‘Never Let Me Go is a novel about characters trying their best to be happy in terrible circumstances.’ How far do you agree with this view? Write about: ¢ what characters in the novel say and do ¢ how Ishiguro presents the characters. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] Turn over for the next question Turn over > IB/G/Jun23/8702/2R 13 14 Meera Syal: Anita and Me or [271] How does Syal present the changes in Meena’s relationship with Anita in Anita and Me? Write about: ¢ the relationship between Meena and Anita and how it changes « how Syal presents these changes. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] or [2[2] How does Syal present ideas about racism in Anita and Me? Write about: ¢ what characters say and do « how Syal presents ideas about racism in the novel. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] IB/G/Jun23/8702/2R 14 16 Section B: Poetry Answer one question from this section. AQA Anthology: Poems Past and Present Either Love and relationships The poems you have studied are: Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning Thomas Hardy Maura Dooley Charlotte Mew Cecil Day-Lewis Charles Causley Seamus Heaney Simon Armitage Carol Ann Duffy Owen Sheers Daljit Nagra Andrew Waterhouse IB/G/Jun23/8702/2R When We Two Parted Love’s Philosophy Porphyria’s Lover Sonnet 29 — ‘I think of thee!’ Neutral Tones Letters from Yorkshire The Farmer's Bride Walking Away Eden Rock Follower Mother, any distance Before You Were Mine Winter Swans Singh Song! Climbing My Grandfather 16 17 Compare how poets present powerful feelings about love in ‘Neutral Tones’ and in one other poem from ‘Love and relationships’. [30 marks] 10 15 Neutral Tones We stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a few leaves lay on the starving sod; — They had fallen from an ash, and were grey. Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious riddles of years ago; And some words played between us to and fro On which lost the more by our love. The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing Alive enough to have strength to die; And a grin of bitterness swept thereby Like an ominous bird a-wing... Since then, keen lessons that love deceives, And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me Your face, and the God-curst sun, and a tree, And a pond edged with greyish leaves. Thomas Hardy IB/G/Jun23/8702/2R Turn over for the next question Turn over > 17 19 Compare how poets present the ways people are affected by conflict in ‘Kamikaze’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. [30 marks] Kamikaze Her father embarked at sunrise with a flask of water, a samurai sword in the cockpit, a shaven head full of powerful incantations 5 and enough fuel for a one-way journey into history but half way there, she thought, recounting it later to her children, he must have looked far down 10 at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea and beneath them, arcing in swathes like a huge flag waved first one way 15 then the other in a figure of eight, the dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun and remembered how he and 20 his brothers waiting on the shore built cairns of pearl-grey pebbles to see whose withstood longest the turbulent inrush of breakers bringing their father's boat safe 25 - yes, grandfather's boat — safe to the shore, salt-sodden, awash with cloud-marked mackerel, black crabs, feathery prawns, the loose silver of whitebait and once 30 a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous. And though he came back my mother never spoke again in his presence, nor did she meet his eyes and the neighbours too, they treated him 35 as though he no longer existed, only we children still chattered and laughed till gradually we too learned to be silent, to live as though he had never returned, that this 40 was no longer the father we loved. And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had been the better way to die. Beatrice Garland IB/G/Jun23/8702/2R Turn over > 19 217 )4] IB/G/Jun23/8702/2R 20 Section C: Unseen poetry Answer both questions in this section. The washing never gets done The washing never gets done. The furnace never gets heated. Books never get read. Life is never completed. 5 Life is like a ball which one must continually catch and hit so it won't fall. When the fence is repaired at one end, it collapses at the other. The roof leaks, the kitchen door won't close, there are cracks in the foundation, 10 the torn knees of children's pants... One can't keep everything in mind. The wonder is that beside all this one can notice the spring which is so full of everything continuing in all directions — into the evening clouds, 15 into the redwing's* song and into every drop of dew on every blade of grass in the meadow, as far as the eye can see, into the dusk. *redwing: a type of bird Jaan Kaplinski In ‘The washing never gets done’, how does the poet present ideas about daily life and connecting with the natural world? [24 marks] 20 
