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OCR · GCSE · English Literature · Higher

Family relationships

Q01.0 40 marks

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Choose ONE question. EITHER. In this extract Pip returns home to find Joe alone, as Mrs Joe is out looking for him.

Explore the ways in which Dickens presents family relationships, in this extract and elsewhere in the novel.

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Marking points

  1. 1 Maintain a critical, task-focused response to Dickens' presentation of family relationships in the extract and the wider novel.
  2. 2 Use relevant textual references from the extract and elsewhere in the novel.
  3. 3 Analyse Dickens' language, form and structure, including the repeated 'by hand' motif where relevant.
  4. 4 Connect interpretations to relevant contextual ideas such as family, adoption, Dickens' life, and bildungsroman development.

Why this answer loses marks

Dickens shows Mrs Joe is cruel and Joe is kind.

This identifies family relationships but stays at character description, with little method analysis, whole-novel reach, or contextual link.