This A Spider’s Web essay questions page focuses on the web as an essay argument. Use it to test your understanding, locate textual evidence and develop an explanation before checking the suggested approach.
Author: Samuel Wachira
The web as an essay argument
The title encourages a reading of crime as a network of connected dependencies. A strong essay explains the connections instead of repeating that a web is a trap.
A question to guide your reading
The search for quick rewards can narrow personal freedom. Discuss.
Suggested argument
Plan separate paragraphs on recruitment, material dependence and concealment. In each paragraph, identify a decision and its consequence; do not treat poverty as an automatic explanation for crime.
Connect this focus to the wider work
Kirikinto has a route to recognition through acting, yet intimidation and the appeal of money make other forms of acceptance powerful. Read his development by comparing what he wants with the price of obtaining it.
Make the connection explicit. Write a sentence showing how this incident or perspective strengthens your first argument. If it provides a contrast, explain the contrast rather than forcing both examples to mean the same thing.
Three tasks to check your understanding
Before writing
Answer the page question in two sentences: one claim and one incident that could support it. Avoid opening with a long biography or the entire story. The aim is to decide what your paragraph will prove.
While reading
Locate the incident in your edition. Record the person involved, the circumstances, the choice and the consequence. Check that memory has not combined details from different scenes.
After reading
Expand the claim into a paragraph. Explain how the example answers the question and finish with a conclusion justified by the evidence. Compare your paragraph with the suggested argument without treating the guidance as a quotation from the book.
Two further essay prompts
- How can a desire for acceptance become a source of vulnerability?
- How do public image and actual conduct differ?
For each prompt, choose two distinct claims. Place a different example under each and explain its relevance to the wording of the question. This produces an answer plan rather than an essay to memorise.
Study questions and answers
Are these A Spider’s Web questions official?
The tasks are original study exercises, not official examination questions or predictions.
What counts as supporting evidence?
An accurately recalled action, exchange or narrative detail can support a claim. Check exact wording before presenting it as a quotation.
What if my edition has different page numbers?
Identify the chapter, scene or circumstances, then locate the event in your own edition.
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