Notes:
Description
‘darker than ours’
‘all the chairs and things were bursting and falling apart’
sofa ‘full of hollows’
‘all the doors were open’
‘broken biscuits’
‘the material didn’t have any colour’
‘the kitchen table was the same as ours’
‘all different chairs’
What Paddy Thinks of It
‘it wasn’t dirty, the way a lot of people said it was’
‘messing on the sofa was great’
‘nobody ever told us to get off it’
‘I liked their house’
‘it was better for playing in’
‘I liked sitting in the hollow’
‘the material was great’
‘I didn’t like that’
‘all I ever had was sandwiches’
Other detail
Cadbury’s
Response:
The extract tells us that Liam and Aidan’s house is not very well looked after, as Paddy says ‘all the chairs and things were bursting and falling apart’ and the sofa was ‘full of hollows.’ This gives us a sense of the disorganisation in the house due to the death of the boys’ mother. Furthermore, Paddy describes that ‘all the doors were open’ in the house, suggesting the carelessness of Mr O’Connely regarding his sons as he lets them wander freely from room to room when they please. It is implied that the sofa is old and not cared for with the quote ‘the material didn’t have any colour’ as the colour of a material fades over time. It could also suggest that a lot of time is spent on the sofa, because the colour could rub off onto clothing etc.
200 words - this is very much shorter than than.
ReplyDeleteLots of short quotations with short description is the best way of tackling the extract question.