Why do Sources A to F Differ in Their Attitudes to the Evacuation of Children?

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Why do Sources A to F Differ in

Their Attitudes to the Evacuation

of Children?

        Source A is a picture taken of evacuees walking towards a station in 1938. The people are in London, where the most amount of people evacuated out of Britains major cities. The faces of the children are happy and optimistic as though they are looking forward to this process. The source, however, does not indicate whether the picture was teken by the government for use as propanganda. Everyone in the photograph are waving and looking at the same point into the camera which could mean they were ordered to pose like that.

        Source B is an interview held in 1988 with a teacher who was evacuated with children during the Second World war. This account gives a more relistic feel on how it moust have felt for mothers to be sepertaed from their children "The children were too afraid to talk, Mothers werent allowed with us" the atmosphere then would have felt uneasy for the children, as the rush into evacuation made children feel confused and unsure where their planned destination would be. The evacuation process was very formal " We put the children on the train and the gates closed behind us" and mothers didnt know how to act as the majority didnt have a clue where their children were off to and when they were going to see their children again.

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        Source C is an extract from a novel about evacuees. As it is fiction, we do not know whether to interpret the story as being true. The novel could have been partly based on true accounts from evacuees. The source begins with "Not a speck of dust anywhere" as though this was a shocked reactionfrom the children about the cleanliness of their new home. People from the city were stereotyped as being poor and unhygenic. The children in the novel are taken in by a hostess who clearly knows nothing about the city life, "Im sorry, how silly of me, ...

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