Raleigh

Question 1

Enthusiasm / Excitement / Dedication

Answer 1

• when Raleigh is picked to go on the raid “[excitedly]” and “were you and I picked – specially?”
• “He looked splendid” and “Keen to get out here”
• When Raleigh is hit during the attack he says, “It only just hit me” and “I’ll be better if – if I get up”

Question 2

Hopeful / Naive / young / eager to please

Answer 2

• Drinks even though doesn’t really want to: [hastily] ‘Oh yes-er-just a small one, sir.’
• Raleigh worries about the raid and ask Osborne, ‘The whole thing’ll be over quite quickly?’
• Raleigh finds Osborne ring and says, ‘I say, here’s your ring.’
• Osborne attempts to warn Raleigh about Stanhope, ‘You see, he’s been out here a long time. It -it tells on a man - rather badly’
• When Osbourne hears Raleigh is going on the raid: ‘Oh. [There is another pause.] Why Raleigh?‘

Question 3

Bravery / Courage

Answer 3

• “Do you want me to go up?” – Raleigh is asking if he should go out to the attack
• “Yes. Keen to get out here.” - Explaining his choice to come fight
• “I say Dennis, don’t you wait - if - if you want to be getting on.” - While on his deathbed, Raleigh refuses to be a burden on Stanhope.

Question 4

Hero Worship

Answer 4

• [suddenly brightening up] at the mention of Stanhope
• ‘He looked splendid! It - sort of - made me feel - … Keen to get out here’
• When Osborne asks Raleigh if he knows Stanhope, Raleigh explains how they know each other from school and says, ‘I was only a kid and he was one of the big fellows…’
• In the letter Raleigh says, ‘I’m awfully proud to think he’s my friend’ and ‘He hardly ever sleeps in the dugout, he’s always up in the front-line with the men … like he did the kids at school’

Question 5

Failure to understand Stanhope

Answer 5

• When Osborne tries to warn Raleigh about the change in Osborne he simply says, • ‘[laughing] Oh, I know old Dennis’s temper!’
• Raleigh is confused to why Stanhope is celebrating about Osborne’s death and says, ‘And yet you can sit here and drink champagne’
• Stanhope loses his temper explaining, ‘My god! You bloody little swine! You think I don’t care’ and ‘To forget, you little fool – to forget!’

Question 6

Raleigh’s death

Answer 6

• Use of first names ‘Dennis’ and ‘Jimmy’
• ‘I’ll be better if I get up and walk about’ and ‘ I got kicked in just the same place at Rugger.’
• ‘It’s just gone through a bit’
• (Stanhope is by Osbourne’s bed fumbling a blanket over him)

Question 7

Impact of O’s death

Answer 7

• After Osborne’s death, Raleigh is described as, ‘walking as though he were asleep’ and his ‘lowered head’ is also described
• murmurs ‘Sorry’ after sitting on Osborne’s bed
• ## ‘How can I sit down and eat that – when – (his voice is nearly breaking) – when Osborne’s – lying – out there – ’

Question 8

Stanhope’s feeling for Raleigh

Answer 8

• Stanhope describes the way in which he thinks Raleigh looked at him upon seeing him drunk, “he looked at me as if I’d hit him between the eyes- - as if I’d spat on him-”
• Stanhope demands “give me that letter!”
• [there is a silence for a moment, broken by Osborne..]
• Tells Osborne, “I knew you’d like him. Personality, isn’t it?”

Question 9

Foil to Stanhope

Answer 9

• ‘He hardly ever sleeps in the dugout, he’s always up in the front-line with the men … like he did the kids at school’
• “He looked splendid”
• [He smiles] “You’ve got a Blighty one, Jimmy.”