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OCR · GCSE · English Literature · Higher

Characters feel about their lives

Q06.1a 20 marks

DNA by Dennis Kelly and Invincible by Torben Betts. Read the two extracts below and answer both parts. For part (a), focus only on the extracts.

Compare how characters feel about their lives in these two extracts.

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Marking points

  1. 1 Compares the characters' dissatisfaction or questioning.
  2. 2 Explains the lack of listening or resolution in both extracts.
  3. 3 Analyses monologue, dialogue, repetition, stage directions or syntax.

Why this answer loses marks

Leah and Oliver are unhappy with their lives.

This spots dissatisfaction but misses the lack of listening, unresolved feeling and dramatic form.