The Manhunt 2007 *

Question 1

context

Answer 1

• Bosnian war
• written as a part of cocumentary by Armitrage on effect fo war
• narrated by a soliders wife - Laura beddoes
• Eddie beddoes her husbad suffered PTSD from fighting in war
• originally called Laura’s poem
• explores the lasting impact of such trauma on people who experience and loved one

Question 2

paragraphs for if named, loss

Answer 2

• explores physical impact of war
• effect on wife
• mental effect

Question 3

paragraph ideas - loss, A wife in london

Answer 3

• both loose their husband through war
• both talk about the effect on the wife
• however manhunt in the mental sense, awinl in a iteral sense

Question 4

para 1 quotes - loss, during war

Answer 4

‘A Wife in London’ was written about the Boer War in what is now South Africa, and ‘The Manhunt’, despite being written in a different century, still explores ideas about relationships affected by war, this time from the Beddoes couple, the husband of which was a peacekeeper in Bosnia

Question 5

para 2 quotes - loss, affect on wife

Answer 5

• couplets emphasises the couple’s strength, but dijsointed markscheme suggetss relationship is under strain
• action’s are tender and caring
• “handle and hold the damaged”
• “mind and attend the fractured rudder”
• “only then could i bind the struts”
• “feel the hurt”
• “then, and only then, did i come close”

Question 6

para 3 quotes - loss, mental vs physcial

Answer 6

• “only then” , repitition
• “he woudl let me”
• “a sweating unexploded mine”
• “burried deep in his mind”
• “nerve in his body had tightened and closed”
• “did i come close”
• suffered from PTSD and depression

Question 7

paragraph ideas - effects of war/power dulce

Answer 7

• both explore the physical effects
• however dulce talks abotu the direct effect on soldiers, manhunt is about soldier and wife
• dulce is more aggressive in the action, manhunt is calm, gentle, aftermath

Question 8

para 1 quotes - effects of war

Question 9

para 2 quotes - effects of war

Question 10

para 3 quotes - effects of war

Question 11

poems to compare with

Answer 11

Dulce et Decorum Est or A wife in London