O-LevelLiterature in EnglishProse2010/12 · May/June 2010 · Q3925 Marks

You are Paulina. You have just been to speak to Mma-Millipede after Makhaya has said he does not know you. Write your thoughts.

(a)You are Paulina. You have just been to speak to Mma-Millipede after Makhaya has said he does not know you. Write your thoughts.[25]

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This incident occurs in Chapter 6.
Paulina is attracted to Makhaya as soon as she sees him, but he does not respond to her first overture when she sends her daughter to greet him.
She will no doubt be mortified at being rebuffed, but she is a proud woman and will not be easily deterred.
Besides, Mma Millipede has been somewhat reassuring.
Paulina is an enterprising type and she may well be thinking about her strategy from this point on as well as speculating about what makes Makhaya behave as he does.
She may also be reflecting on her life before coming to the village.

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Topic: Prose, O-Level Literature in English (syllabus 2010). Structured question, 25 marks.
Source: O-Level Literature in English, May/June 2010 Paper 1 Variant 2, question 39.

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