O-LevelLiterature in EnglishDrama2010/12 · May/June 2010 · Q425 Marks
Either *4 CHARLOTTE KEATLEY: My Mother Said I Never Should Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it. The Wasteground, a place where girls come to play. Enter four girls, each dressed contemporary to her own generation, singing: My Mother said I never should, Play with the gypsies in the wood, If I did, she would say, Naughty girl to disobey! Rosie: [chanting] What are little girls made of? [Coaxing DORIS to answer.] Ssh ... Content removed due to copyright restrictions Margaret: Her Mummy's all right – She gave us lemonade. [Pause.] Rosie: ... She'll split on us though. Then we'll be outlaws. Jackie: Go away, baby. DORIS cries. In what ways do you think Keatley makes this a good introduction to the play?
- (a)In what ways do you think Keatley makes this a good introduction to the play?[25]
Mark scheme
Marking points from the official mark scheme (May/June 2010). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.
- All four characters are featured in this extract and so that in itself makes it appropriate as audience meets the four generations albeit as little girls.
- The individual characteristics of the four are hinted at throughout the extract.
- As Keatley says in the introduction: 'The child scenes are not childish, but a vision of the core of each one of us, later inhabited by the times we grow up in.'
- Undoubtedly, probing of the text here and evaluation thereof will be crucial to creditable reward.
- Detailed knowledge of the play and evidence thereof, will be a sine qua non to higher reward.
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