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Characters find ways of dealing with strong feelings
My Mother Said I Never Should by Charlotte Keatley. Candidates should choose another relevant moment from the set text.
Explore another moment in My Mother Said I Never Should where characters find ways of dealing with strong feelings.
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Marking points
- 1 Selects a relevant moment and analyses how characters deal with strong feelings through language/form/structure.
Full-mark answer
No fixed answer is provided by OCR. A strong response might analyse Jackie giving Rosie up to Margaret, explaining how silence, screams and competing maternal language reveal conflicting strong feelings.
Why this answer loses marks
Describing several moments generally instead of closely analysing one moment.
The examiner report's general part b guidance says broad multi-moment answers often lacked AO2 analysis and were self-limiting.