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A meeting between sisters
Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock and Shameless by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti. Read the two extracts below and answer both parts. For part (a), focus only on the extracts.
Compare how a meeting between sisters is presented in these two extracts.
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Marking points
- 1 Compares the sisters' situations in both extracts.
- 2 Explains attempts at reconciliation, challenge or understanding.
- 3 Analyses dramatic dialogue and stagecraft.
Why this answer loses marks
The sisters are estranged in both extracts.
This identifies conflict but misses attempts at reconciliation, changing understanding and dramatic dialogue.