The Immigrant Experience, Critical Appreciation - OCR A Level English Literature H472

This booklet contains a variety of unseen passages for the unit on ‘The Immigrant Experience’.

Texts include:
‘American and I’ - Anzia Yezierska
‘Exit West’ – Mohsin Hamid
‘Brick Lane’ – Monica Ali
‘Enemies: A Love Story’ – Isaac Bashevis Singer
‘The Assistant’ – Bernard Malamud
‘The Namesake’ – Jhumpa Lahiri
‘The Buddha in the Attic’ – Julie Otsuka
‘The Lonely Londoners’ – Sam Selvon
’The Road Home’ - Rose Tremain
‘Terrorist’ – John Updike
‘My New American Life’ – Francine Prose
‘The Fortunate Pilgrim’ – Mario Puzo
‘The Association of Small Bombs’ – Karan Mahajan
‘Black-Eyed Women’ from ‘The Refugees’ - Viet Thanh Nguyen
‘The Secret River’ – Kate Grenville
‘The Third and Final Continent’ from ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ - Jhumpa Lahiri
’Call it Sleep’ - Henry Roth
‘A Long Way Home’ – Saroo Brierley
‘The Blue Between Sky and Water’ – Susan Abulhawa
‘Shantaram’ – David Gregory Roberts
’Eva’s Story’ - Eva Schloss
‘Girl in Translation’ – Jean Kwok
‘Café Scheherazade’ – Arnold Zable
‘Brooklyn’ - Colm Tóibín

I set ‘The Blue Between Sky and Water’ as a Mock Examination so I have included indicative content for this which would work as a mark scheme and two model answers for ‘A Long Way Home’ and ‘Brooklyn’.