ACC Grade 9 Sentences

Question 1

Not wanting to spend any money

Answer 1

Parsimonious

Question 2

“The cold within him froze his old features”

Answer 2

Dickens uses the coneit of the cold throughout stave 1, to exacerbate Scrooges internal bitterness & apathetic nature

Question 3

Isolation from society

Answer 3

Willingly ostracises himself from society

Question 4

Microcosm

Answer 4

Representing something larger (scrooge is a microcosm for the upper class)

Question 5

Cruel, insensitive to lower classes

Answer 5

Callous

Question 6

Context: poor

Answer 6

1834 poor law - introduced workhouses, where the poor/unemployed could work in exchange for food & shelter. However conditions were dehumanising & exploitative, many died in workhouses

Young children were also sent to workhouses, separated from families

Question 7

Scrooge quote: solitary

Answer 7

“Solitary as an oyster” - simile.
1st interpretation: “solitary”, highlighting his isolation & so presenting him as hostile

2nd interpretation: choice of an oyster significant as despite an oyster being dark & hard on the outside, they can contain something beautiful & valued on the inside. Dickens suggests there is something worth saving within Scrooge, implying that as the novella progresses the Spirits will destroy his hard, stubborn exterior to reveal the ‘pearl’ within

Question 8

Scrooges transformation + effect

Answer 8

Scrooge had a metamorphosis from a misanthropic, cold individual to a benevolent and generous man “as good as the good old city knew”

–> Dickens is pushing the message that everyone is capable of change.

Question 9

Struggle to fit in

Answer 9

struggles to assimilate into society (fit in)