User:Mohammad Taz

What is pqe?

 * It is Point Quote explain
 * It is used when answearing questions in english
 * In england and Wales its called PEE (point evidence explain)
 * They are the same thing.
 * PQE is used in Ireland and Scotland.
 * It used for the JuniorCert(Ireland) and the GSCE (ENGLAND)

An example of pqe
Question: What is the setting of your novel that you studied during your course?(I picked "To kill a mocking bird" by harper lee) You can pick whatever novel you have studied eg. you can pick "The machine gunner's" by robert Westall or something like "Island man"

Answear:

The novel I have studied that has a strong sense of setting is to kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee. The novel is set in Maycomb,a small town in the southern states of America.It is "a tierd old town".The seasons rarely change. They just drift into each otherand often Autumn is never followed by winter.The people in Maycomb move slowly "as there was nowhere to go,nothing to buy no money to buy it with" this shows that people were poor and Maycomb is a quiet,reserved town.

The novel is set in the years following the wall street crash.In 1929, shares suddenly became worthless and poverty swept the nation. All sections of society were hit ,because as Atticus explains to Scout in the novel,professionals(doctors,lawyers,judges etc.) depended on their income from farmers such as the "Cunninghams" who had little or no money and therefore had to pay the professionals with services.

The novel is set after the abolishment of slavery but black and white people remained segragated.There was no longer a distinction of bundaries between the lower class white people such as the "Ewell's" and the black people.

Maycomb is divided into clearly defined groups which characterize position and status in society.Jem recognises this class structure when he tells Scout in Chapter 23 "There are four kinds of people in this world" the first classof white people are the professionals who are educated and repersent the people who are affected the least by the poverty.The middle class people ,those who represent the badly hit farming communities and the "Ewell's" and the black people are the most affected by poverty.

In conclusion I think maycomb is a tired old fictional town. Its citizens are badly affected by the Wall street crash and the people are defined into different social strata.

The End

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