You are Pat at the end of Scholar and Gypsy. You are walking off into the moonlight. Write your thoughts.

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (May/June 2011). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. Candidates should adopt the persona of Pat at the end of 'Scholar and Gypsy', walking into the moonlight.
2. Good answers will reflect her disillusionment and confusion after her encounter with David.
3. Her feelings of abandonment, her hopes shattered, and her sense of a damaged future.
4. Consider her introspection, her attempts to process what has happened, and her understanding of her own desires vs. David's.
5. The imagery of the moonlight might symbolize either a bleak isolation or a tentative hope for clarity/new direction.
6. Look for language that conveys her emotional vulnerability, her former idealism, and her present shattered state.