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Question
‘Honour among thieves' is considered a popular code.
Examine A Question of Trust as a story woven around this code.
Solution
It is believed that thieves steal from other people but never betray each other. In the story ‘A Question of Trust’ Horace Danby was a careful thief who meticulously conducted one robbery per year. His loot plan was executed in such a manner that he was not caught to date. But the lady in red lied to him that she was the owner of the house and forgot her safe’s passkey. Horace believed her and broke the safe. He was unaware of the fact that he had taken off his gloves while offering a cigarette lighter to her. She made a fool of him. In spite of being a thief herself, she did not follow the code of honour normally existing between two thieves. He felt betrayed because this resulted in Horace Danby going to prison for the first time in his life.
Notes
Marking Scheme
Content - 3, Expression - 2, Accuracy - 1
Curriculum document - Questions to assess creativity, imagination and extrapolation beyond the text and across the texts. This can be a passage-based question/ or taken from a situation/plot from the texts.
Note -
- Use the given descriptors to mark the LQs. For Content (refer to Value points) and Expression.
- If the response does not justify all points of a level, the response is marked down.
| Descriptors for Content (with reference to value points) | Marks |
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• Sustained, clear, well-developed personal response to the task |
3 |
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• Largely, a reasonably well-developed personal response to the task |
2 |
| • Fairly competent personal response to the task • Justification with restricted arguments/evidence |
1 |
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• Limited awareness of the task |
½ |
| Descriptors for Expression (Coherence & Cohesion) | Marks |
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• Carefully structured content with a beginning, middle and end with highly relevant ideas presented cohesively. |
2 |
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• Ideas are generally well sequenced and related to the given topic maintaining overall cohesion of ideas. |
1½ |
| • Ideas sequenced fairly well and related to the given topic, sometimes maintaining cohesion of ideas. • Range of vocabulary is limited and conveys a basic idea of the overall meaning |
1 |
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• Poor sequencing of ideas; though related to the given topic, expressed in a disjointed manner exhibiting a lack of coherence of ideas. |
½ |
| Descriptors for Accuracy | Marks |
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• Spelling, punctuation and grammar are almost always or mostly accurate with occasional minor errors which do not impede communication |
1 |
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• Spelling, punctuation, and grammar are fairly accurate, with some minor errors that mildly impede communication |
½ |
| • A lot of errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar that impede communication. | 0 |
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RELATED QUESTIONS
What does Horace Danby like to collect?
Why does he steal every year?
Who is speaking to Horace Danby?
Who is the real culprit in the story?
Did you begin to suspect, before the end of the story, that the lady was not the person Horace Danby took her to be? If so, at what point did you realize this, and how?
What are the subtle ways in which the lady manages to deceive Horace Danby into thinking she is the lady of the house? Why doesn’t Horace suspect that something is wrong?
“Horace Danby was good and respectable − but not completely honest”. Why do you think this description is apt for Horace? Why can’t he be categorized as a typical thief?
Horace Danby was a meticulous planner but still he faltered. Where did he go wrong and why?
Answer the following question in 30-40 words :
How can you say that Horace Danby was good and respectable but not completely honest?
Answer the following question in 30-40 words :
How can you say that Horace Danby was good and respectable but not completely honest?
