R C SHERRIFF: Journey's End Remember to support your ideas with details from the text.

1. (a)Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it: Trotter: I don't like the look of things a bit. Osborne: You mean the quiet? Trotter. Yes. Standing up there in the dark last night there didn't seem a thing in the world alive - except the rats squeaking and my stomach grumbling about the cutlet. Osborne: It's quiet even now. Trotter: Too damn quiet. You can bet your boots the Boche is up to something. The big attack soon, I reckon. I don't like it, Uncle. Pass the jam. Osborne: It's strawberry. Trotter: Is it? I'm glad we've got rid o' that raspberry jam. Can't stand raspberry jam. Pips get be'ind your plate. Osborne: Did Stanhope tell you he wants two wiring parties out tonight? Trotter: Yes. He's fixing it up now. [He pauses, and goes on in a low voice.] My goodness, Uncle, doesn't he look ill! Osborne: I'm afraid he's not well. Trotter. Nobody'd be well who went on like he does. [There is another pause.] You know when you came up to relieve me last night? Osborne: Yes? Trotter: Well, Raleigh and me came back here, and there was Stanhope sitting on that bed drinking a whisky. He looked as white as a sheet. God, he looked awful; he'd drunk the bottle since dinner. I said, "Ullo!' and he didn't seem to know who I was. Uncanny, wasn't it, Raleigh? Raleigh [with lowered head]: Yes. Trotter: He just said, 'Better go to bed, Raleigh' – just as if Raleigh'd been a school kid. Osborne: Did he? [There is a pause.] Look at the sun. It'll be quite warm soon. [They look at the pale square of sunlight on the floor.] Trotter: It's warm now. You can feel it on your face outside if you stand in it. First time this year. 'Ope we 'ave an 'ot summer. Osborne: So do I. Trotter: Funny about that bird. Made me feel quite braced up. Sort of made me think about my garden of an evening – walking round in me slippers after supper, smoking me pipe. Osborne: You keen on gardening? Trotter. Oh, I used to do a bit of an evening. I 'ad a decent little grass plot in front, with flower-borders – geraniums, lobelia, and calceolaria – you know, red, white, and blue. Looked rather nice in the summer. Osborne: Yes. Trotter: 'Ad some fine 'olly'ocks out the back. One year I 'ad one eight feet 'igh. Took a photer of it. [He fumbles in his pocket case.] Like to look at it? Osborne: I would. [He looks at the photo.] By Jove, it's a beauty. Trotter [looking over OSBORNE's shoulder]: You see that, just there? Osborne: Yes? Trotter. That's the roof of the summer-'ouse. Osborne: Is it really! Trotter: Just shows the 'ite of the 'olly'ock. Osborne: It does. [He shows the photo to RALEIGH.] A beauty, isn't it? Raleigh: Rather! Trotter: It never wanted no stick to keep it straight, neether. [There is a pause.] You keen on gardening? Osborne: Yes. A bit. I made a rockery when I was home on leave. I used to cycle out to the woods and get primroses and things like that, and try and get 'em to grow in my garden. Trotter: I don't suppose they would! Osborne: They would if you pressed a bit of moss round them Trotter: to make 'em feel at 'ome, eh? [He laughs.] Osborne: They'll be coming out again soon if they've got this sun at home. [from Act 2, Scene 1] How does Sherriff strikingly portray Trotter and Osborne at this moment in the play?[25]
2. (b)In what ways does Sherriff make the relationship between Stanhope and Raleigh so compelling?[25]