Question 1
B, C, G and H
Question 2
Both sources show the effects of the weather described on people. However, in source A the
weather has a more traumatic and extreme effect as the temperature was ‘plunging down in
seconds’ meaning it wasn’t just a one off cold day and made the people shiver and want to put on
more layers. It makes readers feel terrified of what the people are going through. Where as in source
B, the atmosphere is more calming as the ‘snow had silently fallen’ connoting the fact that it wasn’t
a turbulence or heavy snow, but light and more relaxed so there could be children playing in it
without it affecting them drastically. Over all both sources show different effects with source A being
more extreme in contrast to source B being a normal winter day in London.
Also in source A the writer presents the weather as destructive as it was ‘ripping into the tents in a
blinding fury’. This shows that it affected the peoples habitats and place where they need to sleep.
Despite this, in source B there was no major effect on the people there. ‘it fell without force or
sound’. This contrasts heavily and in source A it is presented to us that the big gusts of wind were
tearing up the people’s property but in source B it is presented as silent and unharmful. To
summarise, the weather in source A is life threatening and destroyed the area whereas in source B it
is ineffective, innocuous and does not impact the life of the people.
Question 3
In source A, the storm is described by the writer as wild and destructive. It is cleverly personified as
it ‘swept up the southern flanks of Everest engulfing the ice-clad slopes’. The word ‘swept’ connotes
the swiftness of the storm clearing anything in its path. The write has purposely done this to
highlight to the reader the monstrosity and danger that the storm brings to the people. Also, the
verb ‘engulfing’ is used to personify the storm and to give it an animalistic vicious feature. It makes
the readers feel frightened for the people in hope that they will survive.
Also, in source A uses dominative words to show the strength of the storm. ‘The mightiest mountain
in the world had disappeared from view as the storm took control’. The fact that the storm made the
‘mightiest’ mountain disappear shows to us as readers that the storm could not be stopped and puts
us in awe and in disbelief that this could even happen. The phrase ‘the storm took control’ suggests
that the people lives were now in the hands of the storm. It is does purposely in this way to make
readers feel on edge and tense to want to know if the people will survive and if anything will be the
same.
Lastly, source A describes the storm as unpredictable as it ‘ripped into the tents in a blinding fury of
driving snow’. The word ‘ripped’ is used to show the vigorous acts of the weather and how
destroying it is. The phrase ‘blinding fury’ suggests that it was unpredictable and so the people could
not prepare for it. It is also something lie they have never seen before and so they were unsure of
what to do. This makes us as readers feel pity for them as they weren’t even able to prepare and
hide away and now the storm has made them devastated with all their land ruined by the storm.
Question 4
The writers in both source A and B have very different perspectives on the ‘extreme’ weather, but
both think that the weather is still very impactful. In source A the writers perspective of the storm is
to be destroying and powerful in which it is called the ‘death zone’ which connotes that the writer
B, C, G and H
Question 2
Both sources show the effects of the weather described on people. However, in source A the
weather has a more traumatic and extreme effect as the temperature was ‘plunging down in
seconds’ meaning it wasn’t just a one off cold day and made the people shiver and want to put on
more layers. It makes readers feel terrified of what the people are going through. Where as in source
B, the atmosphere is more calming as the ‘snow had silently fallen’ connoting the fact that it wasn’t
a turbulence or heavy snow, but light and more relaxed so there could be children playing in it
without it affecting them drastically. Over all both sources show different effects with source A being
more extreme in contrast to source B being a normal winter day in London.
Also in source A the writer presents the weather as destructive as it was ‘ripping into the tents in a
blinding fury’. This shows that it affected the peoples habitats and place where they need to sleep.
Despite this, in source B there was no major effect on the people there. ‘it fell without force or
sound’. This contrasts heavily and in source A it is presented to us that the big gusts of wind were
tearing up the people’s property but in source B it is presented as silent and unharmful. To
summarise, the weather in source A is life threatening and destroyed the area whereas in source B it
is ineffective, innocuous and does not impact the life of the people.
Question 3
In source A, the storm is described by the writer as wild and destructive. It is cleverly personified as
it ‘swept up the southern flanks of Everest engulfing the ice-clad slopes’. The word ‘swept’ connotes
the swiftness of the storm clearing anything in its path. The write has purposely done this to
highlight to the reader the monstrosity and danger that the storm brings to the people. Also, the
verb ‘engulfing’ is used to personify the storm and to give it an animalistic vicious feature. It makes
the readers feel frightened for the people in hope that they will survive.
Also, in source A uses dominative words to show the strength of the storm. ‘The mightiest mountain
in the world had disappeared from view as the storm took control’. The fact that the storm made the
‘mightiest’ mountain disappear shows to us as readers that the storm could not be stopped and puts
us in awe and in disbelief that this could even happen. The phrase ‘the storm took control’ suggests
that the people lives were now in the hands of the storm. It is does purposely in this way to make
readers feel on edge and tense to want to know if the people will survive and if anything will be the
same.
Lastly, source A describes the storm as unpredictable as it ‘ripped into the tents in a blinding fury of
driving snow’. The word ‘ripped’ is used to show the vigorous acts of the weather and how
destroying it is. The phrase ‘blinding fury’ suggests that it was unpredictable and so the people could
not prepare for it. It is also something lie they have never seen before and so they were unsure of
what to do. This makes us as readers feel pity for them as they weren’t even able to prepare and
hide away and now the storm has made them devastated with all their land ruined by the storm.
Question 4
The writers in both source A and B have very different perspectives on the ‘extreme’ weather, but
both think that the weather is still very impactful. In source A the writers perspective of the storm is
to be destroying and powerful in which it is called the ‘death zone’ which connotes that the writer
