Structure

Question 1

Stream of consciousness TLL

Answer 1

fluidity between races

mimics the madness and chaos associated with the belied of black men and white women being sexual

Question 2

Homodiegetic narrator

Answer 2

acousmatic nature emphasises lack of clarity and abnormality which arises due to the unfamiliar nature of a ‘Jamaican fellar taking two home’
- links to feelings of immigrants both inside and outside english culture

Question 3

Heart of Darkness stream of consciousness

Answer 3

• fragmentation, a lot of changes in tense
• ‘i thought’ to ‘we are’ pg 47
• link to lonely londoners change in tense
• our brains work in an illogical manner, rather than a linear one

Question 4

Modernism HOD

Answer 4

• Conrad wrote at the beginning of modernist era, at a prototype stage

Question 5

Modernism TLL

Answer 5

Selvon by using modernism uses white man’s voice get his thoughts across

Question 6

HoD: ‘she walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths’‘with a slight jingle’

Answer 6

iambic trimeter to trochaic feet to altered form of iambic meter- muddled metre, clearly present difficult to define

CONTRASTINGLY:
The Lonely Londoners- prose ‘Moses Aloetta hop on a number 46 bus’= avoids thickly accented dialect, can hear his accent but don’t have to struggle to understand it

Question 7

Heart of Darkness: ‘the hero’s journey’

Answer 7

• sets out on adventure, crisis, conquers, returns home transformed by the victory
• Marlow’s journey is not transformative in the traditional sense; returns haunted instead of victorious
• ambivalent ending- mood is ponderous and heavy

Question 8

Heart of Darkness: ENDING ‘sombre under an overcast sky’

Answer 8

• prepositions, mood becomes ponderous and heavy

- contrasts to light bright semantic field at the start: ‘flutter’