SUT Year 4 Integrated Programme Literature in English Name: (aed) Date: Class UNSEEN PRACTICE, ‘Write a guided tterary analysis on one ofthe texts. In your answer, you must address both ofthe gulding ‘questions provided 1 ‘The clearing was a dreary place, even inthe summer. It as shaded by a stand of tall pines. The outfit! stored his retired boats there, and various pieces of broken ‘and abandoned machinery. There was an old tarp covering the floor ofthe reefer ‘ruck’ to catch the blood ofthe hanging carcasses, andi occurred to me it could be useful for carying back the dog. How could it be that was now somebody who had $ such thoughts! Was this what being practical was? Was this being happily enmeshed inthe world? | was pretty sure the dog's hearing was mostly gone, but when I pulled back the bolt on te rifle, she looked up, She vas expecting to se a grouse. But seeing none she retumed to her mill bones, She chewed them slowy. 10 ‘After a while, cas as though [ ould se everyone ofthe grey hairs about hae ‘muzzle and bear each separate poplar leaf flicker andthe wing of every fy beating in the at, and even fel the slight tremor inthe earth beneath my fet asthe worms ‘began ther hungry ascent toward the surface, L would experience this same sensation later ~ besides and in white corridors and in certain recollected minutes and hours 15, ‘ut will never know more vividly the tersble intimacy and carity of last moments than [did in that clearing, watching an ancient dog eat milk bons. ‘Lended up siting down on the grass beside her I rubbed he ers. “Hy there, old thing" sui 1 didn’t know exactly how old she was, My gifted had told me how thisdog 20 had been her one constant companion ~ through filed love affairs and family gene medi to ure gam ir wih lamp Body and fared os nik bres: dog wea“What are we going to do,” shouted ‘The dog looked up at me and held ber around her neck and presed my fae deep {nto her matted coat, which was rank with all the yeas that had gone aad all the ones that Would not be. "And so here we are,” I wept. “Here we are" And when [released 35 hor from my arms, she bent down fo the bones again and Ipiked up the rifle and shot haerin the back of the head. “Afterward, wrapped her in the tarp and dragged her back into the house. My girend had already decided where she wanted the dog to be buried: on a rocky point atthe edge of the bay. She hada’t wanted to see its body, and so Trowed 40 her out there on my oven. A breeze had begun to blow across the lake and the boat thumped gently over the crests of the small waves. One ofthe dog's paws had come loose fom the tarp and is nai carpe across the aluminum bottom, in almost the ‘exact same rythm as they'd done against the floorboards inthe morning. When I rived, [emoved the tap and lay her down the mass between two cedars. There was 45 10 Fite earth fora burial ‘would retum there only once, I had not been up therefor sometime ~an amount I could not then bring myset to properly measure or calculate, to unpick from the ‘nny gray knot it had all become, At fis there vas no sign of her at all, but eventually, [dug my hands into the moss and found afew small bones. The eagles 50 and vultures and foxes had let nothing else, ‘Tristan Hughes, Up Here (2016) Guiding Questions: ‘How does the nartor’s thoughts and felings unfold in the text? © Comment on the use of imagery inthe passage.