Why do sources A to F differ in their attitudes to the evacuation of children? Explain your answer using the sources and knowledge from your studies.
Coursework
Question 2(a)
Why do sources A to F differ in their attitudes to the evacuation of children? Explain your answer using the sources and knowledge from your studies.
Introduction
To answer this question I will analyse and evaluate sources A to F and come to a conclusion on how they differ in their attitudes to the evacuation of children.
Source A
This source shows Evacuees walking to the station in London in September 1939. The source was a photograph taken in September 1939. In the photograph the children are walking with there teachers to the station, all of the children are happy because they will feel a lot safer in rural places appose to the cities. The purpose of the source is to show people evacuation was good. The government might use the picture for this reason. The intended audience of the source was people that were going to be evacuated so they could see that the people were happy.
We need to be careful using the picture as the scene could be posed. From the picture, it would appear that evacuation was working.
Source B
This source is from an interview in 1988 with a teacher, the teacher remembers being evacuated with children from her school. In contrast with the first source she says that the children were "too afraid to talk". They hadn't any idea where they were going so this would make the children scared, the mothers didn't want to leave they children because they pressed against the iron gates calling "goodbye darling". The intended audience of the source is the people of today so that they could try and imagine what it would be like to be an evacuee. For this reason the source is quite reliable. 50 years after the events, the teacher might have not remembered things accurately. Things could have been changed. However they have no reason to do this.
Question 2(a)
Why do sources A to F differ in their attitudes to the evacuation of children? Explain your answer using the sources and knowledge from your studies.
Introduction
To answer this question I will analyse and evaluate sources A to F and come to a conclusion on how they differ in their attitudes to the evacuation of children.
Source A
This source shows Evacuees walking to the station in London in September 1939. The source was a photograph taken in September 1939. In the photograph the children are walking with there teachers to the station, all of the children are happy because they will feel a lot safer in rural places appose to the cities. The purpose of the source is to show people evacuation was good. The government might use the picture for this reason. The intended audience of the source was people that were going to be evacuated so they could see that the people were happy.
We need to be careful using the picture as the scene could be posed. From the picture, it would appear that evacuation was working.
Source B
This source is from an interview in 1988 with a teacher, the teacher remembers being evacuated with children from her school. In contrast with the first source she says that the children were "too afraid to talk". They hadn't any idea where they were going so this would make the children scared, the mothers didn't want to leave they children because they pressed against the iron gates calling "goodbye darling". The intended audience of the source is the people of today so that they could try and imagine what it would be like to be an evacuee. For this reason the source is quite reliable. 50 years after the events, the teacher might have not remembered things accurately. Things could have been changed. However they have no reason to do this.
