Cambridge IGCSE English - Literature 0486 — 2015 Oct/Nov Paper 4 · Variant 3

This document consists of 5 printed pages, 3 blank pages and 1 insert. DC (ST) 128451 © UCLES 2015 [Turn over Cambridge International Examinations Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education * 3 9 9 5 2 8 1 5 1 4 * LITERATURE (ENGLISH) 0486/43 Paper 4 Unseen October/November 2015 1 hour 15 minutes No Additional Materials are required. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST An answer booklet is provided inside this question paper. You should follow the instructions on the front cover of the answer booklet. If you need additional answer paper ask the invigilator for a continuation booklet. Answer either Question 1 or Question 2. You are advised to spend about 20 minutes reading the question paper and planning your answer. Both questions in this paper carry equal marks. The syllabus is approved for use in England, Wales and Northern Ireland as a Cambridge International Level 1/Level 2 Certificate.

2 0486/43/O/N/15 © UCLES 2015 Answer either Question 1 or Question 2. Either 1 Read carefully the following poem. The poet, revisiting her homeland, describes the darkness of an evening when the electricity has failed. How does the poet’s language portray the scene so vividly? To help you answer this question, you might consider: • how the poet describes the behaviour of various people in the darkness • the ways in which she contrasts darkness and light • how she encourages you to feel about the scene she describes.

3 0486/43/O/N/15 © UCLES 2015 [Turn over Blackout Blackout is endemic1 to the land. People have grown sixthsense and sonic ways, like bats, emerging out of the shadows into the light of their own flesh. But the car headlamps coming towards us make it seem we’re in some thirdworld2 movie, throwing up potholes and houses exaggeratedly, the fresh white painted and grey ramshackle blending into snug relief. And inside, the children are still hovering, hopeful moths around – the flickerless Box3, immune to the cloying stench of toilets that can’t be flushed. The children, all waiting on electric-spell to come and trigger a movie, the one featuring America, played out endlessly in their heads. While back outside, coconut vendors decapitate the night, husky heads cutlassed off4 in the medieval glow of bottle lamps. And everywhere there are flittings and things coming into being, in a night where footfall is an act of faith – A group of young girls huddled in a questionable doorway; The sudden dim horizontal of an alleyway; And the occasional generator-lit big house, obscenely bright – hurting the soft iris5 of darkness in this worn-out movie, slow reeling Under the endless cinema of the skies. 1 endemic : present everywhere within a country 2 thirdworld : of a less economically developed country 3 Box : (slang) television 4 cutlassed off : removed with a large sharp knife 5 iris : aperture admitting light into a camera or the eye

4 0486/43/O/N/15 © UCLES 2015 Or 2 Read carefully this opening section from a novel. The narrator is on a train crossing the border into Germany. He is sharing a train compartment with a stranger. How does the writer make the stranger such an intriguing character? To help you answer this question, you might consider: • how the writer describes the stranger’s unusual appearance and movements • how he portrays the developing relationship between the narrator and the stranger • the stranger’s reaction to the narrator’s final question. My first impression was that the stranger’s eyes were of an unusually light blue. Content removed due to copyright restrictions.

5 0486/43/O/N/15 © UCLES 2015 ‘All these frontiers … such a horrible nuisance.’ Content removed due to copyright restrictions.

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