Section (d) - Finding 'another' part of the novel

I will leave the answering of part ( c ) until our lesson tomorrow and the after school revision lesson. For today’s resource, I am going to focus on answering section (d). As you can see from the example papers you have been given, section (d) requires you to refer to another part of the novel. Now part of the reason I chose this novel for you was because we had enough of them to make it possible for you to take one home with your and to become completely and utterly familiar with it in terms of roughly where about things happen. You should feel like you can skip fairly quickly to the right area of the book to find a particular incident. If not, do that as a homework today. Set out maybe a few page markers to help you navigate the book.

Anyway, for the purposes of answering this question, we need to be familiar with about 4 or 5 parts of the book. This is not a definitive list. I am simply going to choose about 5 parts of the book, and explain a number of different themes which show up in these 5 parts. Hopefully, by revising these 5 parts, it should make your task in part (d) much easier.

So, here are the 5 part we are going to look at.

Part A – (Chapter 1) Holmes and Watson discuss the stick which has been left in their office.

Part B – (Chapter 6) The reader is introduced to the Grimpen Mire by way of narration

Part C – (Chapter 7) Watson is introduced to the main antagonist, Stapleton.

Part D – (Chapter 9) Watson and Baskerville discover Barrymore making secret signals across the moor.

Part E – (Chapter 12) Watson discovers Holmes has been tracking and following the case from a distance.

Hopefully these scenes should cover a sufficient spectrum of THEMES so that at least one of them will be relevant no matter what question comes up.

The question will ask you the SIGNIFICANCE of something such as:

*Setting

*The relationship between characters

*Narrative

*A theme such as power/secrets/social status etc

*Imagery

All you have to do is flick to a part of the book that you think might be relevant and start to answer the question. It is actually not much different to EXTRACT questions, except that you are finding your own extract.

So, basically, I am not going to provide a quick analysis of the 5 scenes above, and explain why they are important.