' A Hanging' by George Orwell - planning sheet for response to previous SQA critical essay question

4. Choose a novel or short story or a work of non–fiction which explores a theme which you find     Interesting. By referring to appropriate techniques, show how the writer explores this theme.

Introduction – name of text, writer, genre, brief description, mention of task

Setting                     –  Point                                       Evidence – ‘sickly light’, ‘yellow tinfoil’, ‘animal cages’, ‘plank bed’                                              ‘pot of drinking water’ ‘ten feet by ten’                                       Analysis and Reaction

Characterisation    –  Point                                       Evidence – ‘puny wisp of a man’, ‘moustache’, ‘comic’, ‘six tall                                                   guards’, ‘white drill suit and gold spectacles’                                       Analysis and Reaction

The dog                   –  Point -                                       Evidence – ‘bounding’, ‘jumping up tried to lick his face’,                                       Analysis and Reaction

The puddle             –  Point – turning point – ‘he stepped slightly aside to avoid a puddle’                                       Evidence – ‘unspeakable wrongness’, ‘All the organs of his body                                       were working’, ‘one mind less, one world less’                                       Analysis and Reaction

Conclusion – mention writer, text, task and make positive comments about content and theme of text.