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PAPER ONE, QUESTION FOUR - TEXTUAL EVALUATION/FICTION
The student thinks the writer establishes a sense of mystery and danger around the house.
To what extent do you agree with this statement?
Remember to stay close to the question focus
In your response you should:
Write about your impression of the house
Evaluate and analyse the ways in which the writer has created these impressions
Support your response with quotations from the text
[20 marks]
Now they had moved, Joseph Hooper was master in his own house.
He said, 'I shall be away in London a good deal. I cannot live here the whole time, even in your holidays.'
That won't be anything new, will it?
He looked away from his son's gaze, irritated. I do my best, he thought, it is not the easiest of tasks
without a woman beside me.
"Ah, but we shall be looking into things, 'he said, 'I shall see about getting you a friend, as well as
someone to look after us in this house. Something is soon to be done.'
Edmund Hooper thought, I don't want anything to be done about it, nobody must come here, as he
walked between the yew trees at the bottom of the garden.
"You had better not go into the Red Room without asking me. I shall keep the key in here.'
I wouldn't do any harm there, why can't I go?' 'Well - there are a good many valuable things. That is all.
Really.' Joseph Hooper sighed, sitting at his desk, in the room facing the long lawn. 'And I cannot think
that it will be a room to interest you much.'
For the time being, the house was to be kept as it was, until he could decide which of the furniture to be
rid of, which of their own to bring.
He moved his hands uneasily about over the papers on his desk, oppressed by them, uncertain where he
should begin.
Though he was accustomed to paperwork. But his father's affairs had been left in disarray, he was
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