Paper 1 sample response (Keenan)
Brian Keenan's account of being held hostage in Beirut for a number of years is a wonderful piece of writing - harrowing, moving, powerful and ultimately hopeful. It is also a great text to teach because it is beautifully written and includes many highly evocative descriptive passages. The analyses below are written under timed conditions in response to a particular extract from the work, and as such present examples...