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OCR · GCSE · English Literature · Higher

Human survival

Q11.1 40 marks

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Extract-based option: the narrator describes London as people evacuate the city.

How does Wells present human survival, in this extract and elsewhere in the novel?

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Marking points

  1. 1 Uses extract and wider novel.
  2. 2 Explores different reactions to survival and invasion.
  3. 3 Analyses analogy, language and structure.

Why this answer loses marks

Humans survive because the Martians eventually die.

This jumps to the ending and misses the extract's survival thinking, analogy and scientific context.