"Evacuation was a great success" Do you agree or disagree with this interpretation?

Source B is extract from an interview with a teacher from 1988. This interview was many years after the war so the teacher would have the benefit of hindsight. This source telling us what it was like taking the children to the station to be evacuated. This source is very limited and doesn't tell you much. What it tells you is that children were too afraid to talk. This shows that evacuation was not a success. This sounded like a very upsetting experience for both the children and the parents. This is shown in source B was it says " the mothers pressed against the iron gates calling" "good bye darling". You can tell by this sentence that it was emotionally upsetting for the mother which would upset the children. This source will be reliable because she is looking back and she will be telling the truth she would have no need t tell lies because the wars is well over. However they were able to evacuate and save lives of many. Although it was upsetting for the mothers but it was the best for the children and the mother because they would know they were safe. Overall this source was not a great success.

Source C is also an extract but this from the novel "Carries War", written in 1973 by Nina Bowden. This source tells us that it was success for the evacuees. In this source it tells you about brother and sister that have been evacuated to a house in the countryside. The host Miss Evans is has told the children (Carrie and Nick) they had best put the slippers so they do not hurt the feet walking the stirs. But Carrie tells Miss Evans we havent any. But carrie was ment to explain that she dint have enough space in the casses to pack slippers. immediately Miss Evans apoligise and said why would you have slippers. This source shows that many hosts had a stereotype about many children and would not give them a chance to explain because they felt to embaressed to ask. This souce shows that evauaction was not great success.

Source D is an adevertisement issued by the government. This advertisement was an appeal for people in scotland provide more homes for children to be evacuated to. In this advertisement there is a picture then some writing underneath. The picture is of two kids smiling. But the two children have two different backgrounds one is of a smarlty dressed kid in a rural background and the other kid is dressed all scruffy in a city background with planes in the fly over the city. This picture could be a succes and a failure. It a success because they are encouraging famillies to Take in children to do the part in the war. However this is a failure because it showing that the host famillies will only want the nice kids and not the ones that are sruffy and ugly. This is a success for the govement and the evacuees. The writing underneath is basicly just government propaganda telling you about how some people have signed up and are now looking after evacuess . This source is an overall success for the government because they were able to evacuate many children in a short peroid of time.

Source E is an extract from a mass obversation surveyfrom 1940. They were interviewing a father of a seven year old child. This is about a father who is too afraid to let his son be evacuated.This is why he wouldn't evacuate his son. He says they will not be able to look after him in the shires or in north wales.he goes on to say that he will be starved before the war and if he dies who is going to look after him after the war. This source was done in 1940 when the war was on. This would engcourage people to keep their children a home and not evacuate them.Its an huge failure for the government.

Sorce F is a evidence frrom films and other evidence. One is the film hope and glory this was a film made about a family who was ment to evauate their children but end up not evauateing the children. They find out it was fine that they never got evauated. This was showing that the children did not nee to be evauated in some towns or citys to be safe.

To conclude my essay evauation was a great success for the government and the parents and the children. It was a government success because they were able to move such a vast amount of children in a small peroid of time. It was a success for the children and their parents because they were able to move to the countryside and safe their childrens life.

Craig McVeigh