1. Choose 3 of the following fragments. Identifying author and text.

Locate the extract

presenting the before and after and offer a close-reading analysis.

a. It was evening now and he had been asleep. The sun was gone behind the hill and there was a
shadow all across the plain and the small animals were feeding close to camp; quick dropping
heads and switching tails, he watched them keeping well out away from the bush now. The birds
no longer waited on the ground.

b. I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight but
each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild strident argument which pulled me back,
as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have
contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was
him too, looking up and wondering.

c. Even the mud there is not still. It has a chill, scouring quality, as though the earth under us
were in motion too. We touch and fumble at one another's extended arms, letting ourselves go
cautiously against the rope; or, erect in turn, watch the water suck and boil where one of the
other two gropes beneath the surface. Pa has come down to the shore, watching

d. As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a
moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment. Then
gradually time awakened again and moved sluggishly on.The horses stamped on the other side of
the feeding racks and the halter chains clinked. Outside, the men's voices became louder and
louder.

2. Choose 2 essays.

a. Women in "The Great Gatsby"

b. American Dream in "Of Mice and Men" and in " Death of salesman"
c. Illusion and reality in" A streetcar called desire"
d. Images of war and violence in " The snows of Kilimanjaro"