AQA English language and literature: Paper 1 Travel writing
Early on in her article ‘Understanding Chic’, Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni evocatively recalls the assault on her 13-year-old senses made by her first experience of Paris: ‘the smell of baked baguettes wafting along the street, the feisty honking of cars ….’ She sums up her initial impressions in a simple statement that goes to the heart of her theme: ‘Parisians were different’. The piece forms part of a 2011 compilation of outsiders’ reflections on Paris entitled Paris was Ours and is therefore ideal for inclusion in the AQA Anthology: Paris for analysis by students of A-level English language and literature in Section A (‘Remembered places’) of Paper 1 (‘Telling stories’). Although it seems rather an obvious statement and is housed in a straightforward sentence, shrewd students of language will be able to spot that there is a lot of mileage in using the phrase ‘Parisians were different’ as a starting point for the journey of analysis, through grammar, genre and representation.
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