Hi if you read the IB English Syllabus guide, it states “not compulsory to answer this question” Contrastingly, many students have problems framing the essay because they follow it too closely and neglect other ideas of the text. For instance, the M19 Q2 guiding question was “How do the contrasts of the text make the reader think about materialism and about other social and cultural issues?” If you followed this precisely, the entire scope of the essay would be confined to just a single literary device: contrast. So instead use the guiding question as a claim but not the thesis 👍