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What is the importance of the character Fezziwig

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Allow Scrooge to recognise what are good employer is

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What is the importance of Belle and the broken engagement

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Demonstrates how Scrooge chooses Money over love

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What does Scrooge’s greed lead to

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Unhappiness

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Why did Dickens include the broken engagement

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To demonstrate how loved of money can destroy human love

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What are quotes referring to Fezziwig

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‘Wonderful agility’
‘ Positive light’

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What are quotes on Belle and the broken engagement

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‘An idol has replaced me’
‘I wish you well in the life you have chosen’

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What adverb is used to describe how Scrooge waited for the ghost of Christmas present

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‘Timidly’

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What does Bob Cratchits toast to Scrooge revealed about him

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They see positivity out of very little things

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The cratchits home is a replica of whose house

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Dickens’

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What atmosphere is created in the Cratchits Home

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One full of energy and excitement

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What’s the purpose of the character tiny Tim

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Provoked sympathy for Dickens’s social message

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What does the character of Tiny Tim reflect

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The inequality in society

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What is the importance of Fred

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He shows what Scrooge could become and he is the antithesis of Scrooge

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What qualities does Fred have

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Generous, charitable, understanding and empathetic

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Why did Dickens include the characters of ignorance and wants

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To illustrate his belief in the power of the role of education

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What does the character ignorance represent

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The ignorance of people in power who could stop the cycle of despondency through education but choose not to 

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What are some quotes of the Cratchits in Stave three

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‘Tearing in, screaming’
‘ eked out’
‘Founder of the feast’

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What are some quotes of Tiny Tim from stave 3

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“Iron frame”
“ Little crutch”

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Name ignorant someone’s quotations from Stave 3

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“Yellow megre ragged scowling”
“They are man’s”
“Beware of both”
“ stale and shrivelled”

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What character does the last ghost embody

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The Grim Reaper

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What is the significance of the last ghost embodying the Grim Reaper

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It foreshadows shadows and Alludes to Scrooges potential death

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What’s the significance of the young couple visiting Scrooge

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It demonstrates that unexpected emotion at the death of Scrooge as some people felt guilty that the borrowed money was returning to Scrooge

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What is the importance of the death of Tiny Tim in Stave 4

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It shows how innocent people suffer as a result of others greed

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How is the death of tiny Tim felt across the family

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The joy and exuberance of the family are completely removed which is a contrast from stave three where there was a jubilant atmosphere within the family

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What is Mr Cratchit’s reaction to the death of tiny Tim 

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 He tries to remain strong however his emotions get the best of him and has an outflow of emotions

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What are quotes on the death of Tiny Tim and its impact on Mr Crachit

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“He broke down all at once. He couldn’t help it”

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What’s the quotation which demonstrates the impact of tiny Tim’s death on the family

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”Quiet. Very quiet”
“The noisy little Cratchits were as still a statues”

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What is the importance of Fred in Stave 4

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It allows Dickens to demonstrate the importance of emotional support and financial aid

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What was Fred’s reaction to Tiny Tim’s death

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He offers words of sympathy to Bob Cratchit

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What is importance of the scene at Scrooge’s gravestone

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It builds a climax and has high tension to make the reader think

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What does stave 4 quotations on Scrooge

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“ i’m not the man I was”
“ Assure me that I yet may change the shadows you have shown me, by an altered life 

32
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Who Scrooges laugh reminiscent of

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Fred’s humour 

33
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What’s your fact of the repetition of ‘wonderful’

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It emphasises the complete transformation of Scrooge

34
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What quotations in stage one demonstrates Scrooges character

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“ as solitary as an oyster”
“Hard and sharp as Flint”
“old sinner”
“Carried his own low temperature around with him”

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What quotations instead of one show Scrooges naivete to the problems in lower classes

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“ are there no prisons”
“ decrease the surplus population”


36
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What quotation in stave one shows Scrooge as a miser

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“ scrooge never painted out Marley’s old name “

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How does Dickins provoke emotion towards Scrooge in Stave 2

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Through the telling of the Childhood of Scrooge, as we see Scrooge was neglected by his family and spent Christmas alone

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What quotations illustrate Scrooges poor childhood

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’ A solitary boy neglected by his friends and family ‘
‘Poor boy ‘

39
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What quotation shows Scrooges relationship with his father

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’ Father has been so much kinder than he used to be ‘

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What quotation show the economic state of the Cratchit’s

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‘eked out’

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What quotation foreshadows Tiny Tim’s death

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’ I see a vacant seat ‘

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What technique does Dickins use in the start of Stave 5 to demonstrate the extent of Scrooge’s transformation

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Similes

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Give examples of the similes used in Stave 5 to demonstrates Scrooge’s transformation

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‘as light as a feather’
‘as happy as an angel’
‘as merry as a schoolboy’
‘as giddy as a drunken man’

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What is Tiny Tim’s famous quotation and last line of the novella

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‘God bless us, everyone!’

45
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What is the purpose of Fred

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To act as the antithesis of Scrooge who demonstrates Dickens’ view on how people should treat one another

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Who is Bob Cratchit

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Scrooge’s clerk who has poor wages and working conditions, however despite this he remains positive

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Who is Tiny Tim

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Dickens’ character who presents how his disability is something to be pitied as he is unable to contribute to society

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Who is Fezziwig

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Scrooge’s former employer who demonstrates the character of a good employer and therefore allows scrooge to reflect on how he treats bob Cratchit

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How is Bob Cratchit introduced

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Timid and nervous
Unnamed as he is referred to as ‘the clerk’

50
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What is the purpose of Bob Cratchit being unnamed in the first stave

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Dickens wants to highlight how the lower-class didn’t have an individual identity

51
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Show a quote demonstrating Bob Cratchit as a loving father and husband

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‘Bob held his withered hand, as if he loved the child and wished to keep him by his side’

52
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What is the purpose of Bob Cratchit being presented as a loving father

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Bob C is the idealisation of the lower class - despite low wages, Bob remains grateful and compassionate

53
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How is Bob C linked to poverty

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Bob C represents the plight of the poor.

54
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What is the purpose of presenting Bob as hardworking

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Dickens wants to challenge the misconceptions of his Victorian readers as many would have believed that people lived in poverty because they were lazy

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How is Bob C linked to the theme of family

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Bob is presented as an appreciating father as he states, ‘the greatest success achieved by Mrs Cratchit since their marriage’

56
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What is the purpose of linking bob cratchit to family

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Dickens wants to highlight how family should be an essential focus during the festive period

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What is the purpose of Bob developing as a result of Scrooge

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Dickens wants to symbolise the power and superiority of the upper class over the poorer members of society

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