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Source G is an extract taken from a novel. Is it reliable as evidence about evacuees?  

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Source G is an extract taken from a novel. Is it reliable as evidence about evacuees? I think that that source G is reliable in some aspects. I believe that as it was written in 1973, again some information Nina Bowden may have received from evacuees could have been distorted. In general, most of the foster parents who lived in the countryside did believe that the "city kids" were poor. For example in source E was an interview with the mother of a host family. "The children went round the house urinating on the walls." This is the mistake that Miss Evans makes in assuming that Carrie and her brother are poor as they are from the city and that they couldn't afford slippers. "She thinks we're poor children, too poor to have slippers." She doesn't take in to account that as an evacuee, you could only take a small number of...

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