When It Happens: The close third-person perspective follows Mrs Burridge's thoughts

1. Situation: A woman carrying out domestic routines imagines the collapse of social order and plans how she will survive it.
2. Perspective: The close third-person perspective follows Mrs Burridge's thoughts, making practical observation and anxious fantasy difficult to separate.
3. Domestic setting: Food, household supplies and farm routines give the imagined crisis material detail. Ordinary competence becomes a possible survival skill.
4. Future imagining: Repeated projections into what will happen create suspense without confirming that disaster is imminent.
5. Characterisation: Mrs Burridge appears perceptive and capable, but her secrecy and suspicion complicate the reader's trust in her predictions.

When It Happens: Food, household supplies and farm routines give the imagined

1. Gender and power: The story contrasts undervalued domestic knowledge with male confidence and public authority.
2. Structure: Movement between present tasks and future scenarios gradually allows imagined violence to dominate the narrative.
3. Ambiguity: Atwood leaves open whether Mrs Burridge is paranoid, prophetic, or responding rationally to real signs of instability.

When It Happens: Exam focus on Mrs Burridge appears perceptive and capable, but her

1. Thesis route: Atwood uses an uncertain viewpoint to show how fear can reveal both social vulnerability and forms of practical intelligence.
2. Comparison: Compare with another dystopian text through perspective, preparation and the boundary between reasonable warning and consuming fear.
3. EvidenceIn When It Happens, connect a woman carrying out domestic routines imagines the collapse of social order and plans how she with food, household supplies and farm routines give the imagined crisis material detail. ordinary competence to build a precise interpretation.
4. Whole-text developmentWhole-text route for When It Happens: begin with a woman carrying out domestic routines imagines the collapse of social order and plans how she will survive it, then trace how the central pressure changes rather than listing techniques. Begin with the fact that a woman carrying out domestic routines imagines the collapse of social order and plans how she will survive it. Then test that starting point against the later emphasis that the story contrasts undervalued domestic knowledge with male confidence and public authority. The decisive development in When It Happens lies in the close third-person perspective follows mrs burridge's thoughts, making practical observation and anxious fantasy difficult to separate, which gives the ending its specific interpretive force.
5. Context and connection: Use context to sharpen interpretation: Repeated projections into what will happen create suspense without confirming that disaster is imminent. For When It Happens, use this connection: Mrs Burridge appears perceptive and capable, but her secrecy and suspicion complicate the reader's trust in her predictions. Judge the difference through food, household supplies and farm routines give the imagined crisis material detail. For When It Happens, use this connection: Mrs Burridge appears perceptive and capable, but her secrecy and suspicion complicate the reader's trust in her predictions. Judge the difference through food, household supplies and farm routines give the imagined crisis material detail.
6. Exam application: A strong response can argue that atwood leaves open whether Mrs Burridge is paranoid, prophetic, or responding rationally to real signs of instability. For When It Happens, support the thesis through food, household supplies and farm routines give the imagined crisis material detail. ordinary competence becomes a possible survival, analysing where each detail appears and how it answers the question. In When It Happens, organise the paragraph around a woman carrying out domestic routines imagines the collapse of social order and plans how she will survive, so evidence and method sustain one interpretation.