Business Exploring Prose

Business Exploring Prose
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And Iona turns round to tell them how his son died, but at that point the hunchback gives a faint sigh and announces that, thank God! they have arrived at last. After taking his twenty kopecks, Iona gazes for a long while after the revelers, who disappear into a dark entry. Again he is alone and again there is silence for him…. The misery which has been for a brief space eased comes back again and tears his heart more cruelly than ever. With a look of anxiety and suffering Iona’s eyes stray restlessly among the crowds moving to and fro on both sides of the street: can he not find among those thousands someone who will listen to him? But the crowds flit by heedless of him and his misery…. His misery is immense, beyond all bounds. If Iona’s heart were to burst and his misery to flow out, it would flood the whole world, it seems, but yet it is not seen. It has found a hiding-place in such an insignificant shell that one would not have found it with a candle by daylight….
Iona sees a house-porter with a parcel and makes up his mind to address him.
“What time will it be, friend?” he asks.
“Going on for ten…. Why have you stopped here? Drive on!”
Iona drives a few paces away, bends himself double, and gives himself up to his misery. He feels it is no good to appeal to people. But before five minutes have passed he draws himself up, shakes his head as though he feels a sharp pain, and tugs at the reins…. He can bear it no longer.
(50 marks)

Word limit – 1600 words
Please append a reference list to your answers, using the Harvard convention.

2.  Analyse the characterisation  craft of  Katherine Mansfield in A Cup of Tea.
Please find the short story in enclosed document
The analysis of Katherine Mansfield A Cup of Tea should consist of the following part:
•    Plot
•    Themes
•    Settings and atmosphere
•    Characterisation
– How are the traits of the character develop?
– How the author describe the story, Indirect or direct?
– Reveal the character through dialogues, room description, how she relates to her and…
•    Narrative perspective
•    How do you feel about it?

(50 marks)
      Word limit – 1700 words
Please append a reference list to your answers, using the Harvard           convention.