Here is a CXC past paper type summary writing question. This is the type of summary writing question that has been on CXC English A past papers NB: CXC suggests spending no more than 35 minutes to answer the summary writing question in Section one, paper 2 of the English A exam. Read carefully the following conversation between Ross and Susan and then…
Sullivan is a little boy of ten years. It’s a small family of two persons with meagre means. The mother is working and the son like any other boy of his age goes to school. He is a loving son and for the mother her son is as good as gold itself. SUMMARY The story starts with the terrible sound…
‘‘To Da-duh, in Memoriam’’ is an autobiographical story told from the point of view of an adult looking back on a childhood memory. The story opens as the nine-year-old narrator, along with her mother and sister, disembarks from a boat that has brought them to Bridgetown, Barbados. It is 1937, and the family has come to visit from their home…
Olive Senior, the author of ‘The Two Grandmothers’, was born in Trelawney, Jamaica. She attended Montego Bay High School, and then went on to study journalism in Cardiff, Wales. She then studied at Carlton University in Ottowa. She currently lives in Canada but visits Jamaica regularly. SUMMARY Grandma Dell and Grandma Elaine a.k.a. Towser are the two grandmothers in the narrative, and the story begins with a little girl telling her mother about her experiences with them. Grandma Dell is her ‘country’ grandma, who lives in rural Jamaica, keeps cattle, serves her community, attends church with her granddaughter, and adores her granddaughter’s ‘beautiful’ complexion and hair. Her ‘town’ grandma, on the other hand, is Grandma Elaine. She has been married several times, is a socialite who dates affluent men, travels often, and is highly conscious of her physical beauty. Initially, the granddaughter favours her rural grandma, who was…
SUMMARY This short story was told from the perspective of an adult and chronicles the events behind a child’s (the adult narrator) belief that the world was about to end. The story is set on a plantation in Louisiana in 1936, where the church was the axis around which plantation life revolved. Despite this fact, the narrator was holding on…
