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2 model responses for the AQA 2025 Paper 1 Question 5 narrative prompt focused on technology breaking down. Both are aimed to meet the criteria for grade 9 using the drop, shift, zoom, leave method.

I have called one story ‘Rebooting Humanity’ which has an uplifting ending and the other ‘404: Future Not Found’ which has a more bleak and nihilistic setting. Both employ the conventions of the dystopian genre and include the little tricks to impress examiners such as a motif, pathetic fallacy, semantic fields, a wide range of punctuation , single sentence paragraphs and a circular structure to add cohesion.