Why do sources A to F differ in their attitudes to the evacuation of children?

Source C was a novel for children written by a writer called Nina Bowden, who was actually an evacuee. The novel was written in 1973-34 year after evacuation therefore it is a secondary source. The purpose of a novel is to either entertain or to just purely sell, this means that the source can not always be relied on as things can be exaggerated. The source is telling us that there were expectations of the evacuees to be poor, even though many were middle class as well. Nina Bowden was an evacuee so the stories and facts may be true but as it was written so many years after the war she has become old and very forgetful. Sources C and F are very different as one is a novel and one is a film. They also hint that experiences differed according to class. The source is neither for nor against evacuation as they have already been evacuated and it talks about experiences. Source c‘s attitude towards evacuation is much more neutral as it is neither for nor  against and it has different views on experiences-novels are for entertainment purposes so you would expect their attitudes to be different to somewhat more biased views with sources.

Source D is an appeal for people to provide homes for evacuee children, it is for evacuation as it wants people to help out during the war and do “their” part. The purpose of the source is to persuade people to help out, however, it is biased as and one sided as it is white propaganda to encourage families to take evacuees in, so obviously it is going to be for evacuation and only one sided. The poster has two children on it smiling to encourage the family’s better nature and warm hearts by letting them into their homes. Using such phrases like “You may be saving a child’s life”, appeals to people’s better natures as well. The source was issued by the government in 1940, which makes the source very reliable to what was going on in the war and how people was warming to the idea as is a primary source and is based at the time of the war. The attitude of source D to evacuation is positive as it is for evacuation and wanting people to help the evacuees.

Source E is an interview that is against evacuation as a man wouldn’t let his children be evacuated as he thought that the shires areas, Wales and the west were poor and he thought his kids would be better off with him, the source is biased and is very prejudice. The purpose of this source is to find out opinions on evacuation but as it was in 1940 it is a primary source showing it has more relevant information and reliability the source B. However as they are biased and only have the opinions of one person, it is very difficult to consider whether the opinions are true or not. The parent that was being interviewed in the source mentioned that the shires, Wales and the west were starving before the war; this was an impression to do with the Great depression in 1930.The attitude to source E is strongly negative to evacuation of children due to the “poorness” of the north.

Source F is a film called Hope and Glory the film was made to sell and to entertain such as source C, these will be widely exaggerated to excite the viewers, and therefore can not always be reliable. It was Made in 1987 a good few years after the war was over so the source is actually secondary information as well, it doesn’t but a good view across of evacuation as the mother would miss her children so much that she didn’t want to give her children up, therefore she was against evacuation and wanted hen to stay with her, source E was against evacuation as well and the are very similar in views. Films are researched with information from books and other primary sources from the war. So sources E and F would be very similar because of the information involved and what people believed at that time, However at the end of the film it because for evacuation, this due to the fact that the family’s house burnt down and they had to move to the countryside, they absolutely loved it!...

Even though at the start of the film it portrays it as a bad because the woman doesn’t want her children to live with strangers it makes up for it with the vast variation of feelings, mostly happiness towards the end, The film overall shows that the countryside weren’t starving and proves the mans explanation and view to be wrong in source E, that is how source E and F differ, even though the impressions and emotions can relate to each other in ways.

Source F’s attitude towards evacuation is what some may call undecided as it has lots of different emotions and interpretations of the war to make it neither for nor against at points.

Overall Source A to F’s attitudes towards evacuation is widely varied in their interpretations of the war and the evacuation process. There are many for and against sources and even some neutral ones. Some of the sources attitudes showed that they thought evacuation was a good idea as they knew their children would be safe and they would be able to live a happy life after the war, However some other sources showed the negativeness that was lurking at the time of the war, many people wanted their children to stay with them and actually risk their children’s lives, We know that some of the sources are primary and some are secondary. All of the sources I have just spoken about differ in their attitudes as the sources are made for different people at different times for different purposes, however the sources no matter how much they differ from pictures, interviews and films to appeals and novels they may not always be reliable in what they tell us and therefore giving us a false assumption of the attitude at the time of evacuation.