The next 3 weeks

Monday 12th Jan = The Custody of the

Pumpkin
Revision
Sessions
Wednesday 14th Jan = The Destructors
Every
Tuesday
&
Friday
th
Thursday 15 Jan = A Horse and Two Goats
3.45
- 4.30
Monday 19th Jan
= The
Rain Horse
up.
Wednesday Please
21st Jan =sign
My Greatest
Ambition
Monday 26th Jan = Sandpiper
Wednesday 28th Jan = At Hiruharama
Monday 2nd Feb = Mock exams

The Custody of the

Pumpkin

Setting
1930s England
Blandings Castle:

its ivied walls, its

rolling parks, its
gardens, outhouses, and
messuages

Setting
Kensington
The Senior Conservative Club is a
solid and massive building
having lunched frugally at the
Senior Conservative Club on the
third day of his visit

Lord Emsworth
Find a quote
Appearance
Pumpkins are more vital than Freddie, his son
Upper social class
Wins first prize for his pumpkins

Hon. Freddie
Threepwood
Lord Emsworths second son

Find a quote
Personality
Irresponsible
Doesnt obey his father

Angus McAllister
Lord Emsworths head gardener
Sacked by him
Scottish

Find a quote
Appearance
Lower Social Class
Useful

Lord Emsworth
The comic figure of Lord Emsworth
is central to the story.
Consider the way in which he
responds to his sons courtship and
eventual marriage to Aggie
Donaldson.
What does it reveal about snobbery
and class?

Language
1. An elderly leopard waiting for
feeding-time
2. bellowed
3. Sorer than a gumboil
4. Swayed like a sapling in the
breeze
5. Custodian of the Blandings Hope
6. Gamboiled
7. Lord Emsworths eyes bulged

Homework
How does Wodehouse portray Lord
Emsworths comic concern for the
well-being of his prize pumpkin?
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