Significant cigarettes (Paper 2)

Question 1

Ideas

Answer 1

This extract is the start of the novel. Lev is on a bus from Eastern Europe to London. He is alone in the beginning but then he starts talking to Lydia, who is sat next to him. Lev tells us about his unemployment and that he decided to go to London to support his family.

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

This is an extract from a much longer novel. Tremain won an ‘Orange Broadband Prize’ for ‘The Road Home’. Tremain goes on to criticise the selfishness of the upper class in the novel, using the eyes of Lev to achieve this.

Question 3

Key quotations

Answer 3

• Leather jacket and jeans and a leather cap
• I’m sorry, but there is no smoking allowed on this bus
• Expect you undertand what I mean?
• Lovely. Sorry. I am legal. How much please. Thank you. May you help me.
• I’m going to make them share it with me:

Question 4

Leather jacket and jeans and a leather cap (analysis)

Answer 4

Syndetic listing - dressed simply

Question 5

I’m sorry, but there is no smoking allowed on this bus (analysis)

Answer 5

• Dialogue reveals directness
• Declarative suggests confidence

Question 6

Expect you undertand what I mean? (analysis)

Answer 6

Irony- he’s leaving out of necessity CONTRAST

Question 7

Lovely. Sorry. I am legal. How much please. Thank you. May you help me. (analysis)

Answer 7

• Basic, functional, mostly monosyllabic- opportunities for him will be limited
• “I am legal” - anticipates xenophobic attitudes

Question 8

I’m going to make them share it with me: (analysis)

Answer 8

Declarative & active voice - determination