There are some guide questions that students can focus on this chapter. Also, helps the teacher to organize better and have a well explained chapter lesson.

1. Spies
Chapter 8

2. • Chapter opens with S experiencing feeling of
isolation because he is missing Keith very much.
• Barbara Berrill’s role in this chapter is really
important, Why? ( She interprets the events that
S has been watching with entirely different
conclusions.
• S feels angry because B.B knows more about
Keith than he does.
A) identify conflicting realities
B)explore the role of each character

3. • Explore Mrs Haward’s actions –commentary
on her behaviour.
• Explore the situation with the policeman.
What image does his present give to the
children?
• Discuss the characterisation of the other
children of the class.
• Discuss the relationship between B.B and
Stephen, why it changes? It matures through
time.

4. Symbols
What do the symbols represent ?
• Bayonett
• Cigarette
How does the writer use language to present to
present Stephen (pg 167)
Discus Stephen’s idea of who the person in the
cellar really is.