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In what ways does Desai make Raka such a striking and important character?
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English Literature
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Assembled from the topic question banks — not an official Cambridge International paperIn what ways does Desai make Raka such a striking and important character?
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In what ways does Hill create particularly disturbing impressions of childhood?
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Explore the ways in which Austen dramatises the conflict between personal happiness and social expectation in Pride and Prejudice.
How does Rumens movingly portray childhood and sacrifice in this poem?
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Carpet-weavers, Morocco
The children are at the loom of another world. Their braids are oiled and black, their dresses bright. Their assorted heights would make a melodious chime.
They watch their flickering knots like television. As the garden of Islam grows, the bench will be raised. Then they will lace the dark‑rose veins of the tree‑tops.
The carpet will travel in the merchant’s truck. It will be spread by the servants of the mosque. Deep and soft, it will give when heaped with prayer.
The children are hard at work in the school of days. From their fingers the colours of all‑that‑will‑be fly and freeze into the frame of all‑that‑was.
(Carol Rumens)