Question
How do writers in Telling Tales present relationships under pressure? Refer to two or three stories. (30 marks)
Mark scheme guidance:
- Choose stories where relationships are tested — a marriage at a breaking point, a parent-child moment of rupture, a friendship altered by knowledge.
- AO1: compare the different kinds of pressure the stories present; what does each writer argue about relationships?
- AO2: the domestic setting as charged with significance; specific dialogue as the vehicle of pressure; silences and what is not said.
- AO3: contemporary British life; post-war/post-colonial family structures; gender roles.
- Top answers: argue that "under pressure" is the natural state of the stories — pressure reveals character.
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