A small scene with unanswered questions
A small scene with unanswered questions
At midnight, a boy sits alone in a third-class railway carriage beneath an oily lamp. The speaker can observe his solitude and listlessness, but cannot know where he has come from or where he is going.
Step-by-step lessons on OCR GCSE English Literature 2.3.4 Midnight on the Great Western by Thomas Hardy. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Work through your set texts (Shakespeare, the 19th-century novel, the modern text, and the poetry cluster) alongside regular unseen-extract practice, since both components include unseen comparison questions that are usually the most time-pressured.