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Christmas Carol (mocks 1) Flashcards

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Moments with the theme of family

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Fred (stave 1- invite to dinner; stave 3- christmas party; stave 5- scrooge goes to party); cratchits (stave 3-christmas party; stave 4- Tiny tim’s death; stave 5- tt lives); Fanny (stave 2- visits scrooge at school); Belle (stave 2-why broke up with Scrooge; saw family he could’ve had); Miners (stave 3- celebrating Christmas)

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Moments with the,e of christmas/Christmas spirit

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Presented throughout novella but focusing on (stave 1- Fred(invite scrooge to dinner); portly gentlemen (visit scrooge); choir boy); fezziwigs party (stave 2); stave 3 (ghost of christmas present; cratchit’s christmas party; miners; ship; lighthouse; Fred’s christmas party); stave 5 (turkey; religion; actions of scrooge, Tiny Tim)

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Moments with theme of friends

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Marley(stave1); lighthouse(stave 3); fezziwig’s ball (stave 2); fred’s party (stave 3)

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Moments with theme of personal, moral, ethical choices

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Fred(stave 1-invite; stave 5-scrooge comes to his dinner); Tiny Tim’s death; Scrooge (behavoir, treatment toother people, cratchits, caroline, grave, choir boy, belle); rag+ bone shop (stave 4); Jacob Marley (stave 1)

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Fred- stave1

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‘Merry Christmas’ (‘Bah!’ ‘Humbug!’) , ‘gaily’, ‘Come! Dine with us tomorrow’ ‘a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time’

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Portly gentlemen- stave 1

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‘make some slight provision for the poor and destitute’, ‘Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’, ‘endeavouring to raise a fund’

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Choir boy

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“God bless you, merry gentleman!’ , ‘should like to have given him something’ ,‘siezed the ruler’, ‘singer fled in terror’

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Fred- stave 3

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‘I am sorry for him’ (talking about scrooge), ‘Uncle Scrooge’, ‘Uncle Scro-o-o-o-oge!’ , ‘had some music’, ‘lace tucker’, ‘blind-man’s buff’ game ‘Yes and No’ ‘rather a disagreeable animal’. Scrooge ‘begged like a boy’ to stay. ‘Blessed in a laugh’

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Fred- stave 5

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‘I have come to dinner’ , ‘Wonderful party’ (‘wonderful’ repeated) ‘won-der-ful’

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Importance of Fred

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Used as a mouthpiece for Dicken’s messages : ‘a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time’; ‘wealth is of no use to him’, ‘consequence’-‘looses some pleasant moments’. We listen to him as he is friendly/likeable ‘gaily’; ‘I feel sorry for him’

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Fezziwig’s party

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Stave 2

‘Mince pies’, ‘plenty of beer’, ‘dance’, ‘a positive light’-‘Fezziwig’s calves’, ‘forfeits’, ‘baker’, ‘milkmaid’

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Tiny tim

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Stave 3(‘supported by an iron frame’, ‘little crutch’) stave 4 (died ‘he broke down all at once’, ‘little Bob’ Thy childish essence was from God’ ’) stave 5 (‘who did NOT die’, ‘God bless us. Every one’)

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Portly gentleman- stave 5

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‘not a farthing less’, ‘pang across his heart’, ‘ a great many back-payments are included’

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Cratchit’s christmas party

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Stave 3 ‘Eked out’, ‘threadbare clothes’, ‘nobody said’ ‘Tiny Tim’. ‘Grace was said’

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Marley

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‘never painted out Old Marley’s name’, ‘I wear the chain I forged in life’, ‘Incessant torture of remorse’

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Lighthouse

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Stave 3 ‘Joining their horny hands’ ‘had made a fire’ ‘wished each other a Merry Christmas’, ‘solitary lighthouse’

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Miners

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Stave 3 ‘gaily in their holiday attire’, ‘labour in the bowels of the earth’, ‘singing’-‘vigour’

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Ship

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Stave 3 ‘every man’ ‘hummed a Christmas tune’, ‘had a Christmas thought’

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Fanny

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Stave 2 ‘You are quite a woman, little Fan’

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Belle

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Stave 2 ‘golden idol’, ‘torture’(for scrooge to be reminded), ‘shouts of wonder and delight’, ‘I cannot bear it’ (Scrooge)

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Scrooge- stave 1

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‘no warmth could warm’ ‘frosty rime’ ‘I wish to be left alone’ ‘Good Afternoon!’ (Dismissing fred), ‘seized the ruler’, ‘It’s not convenient’ (Bob asks for Christmas off)

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Cratchit’s view of scrooge

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‘Ogre’

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Scrooge actions towards Cratchits stave 5

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‘prize turkey’, ‘raise your salery’

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Caroline

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Stave 4, ‘happier house’ after Scrooge’s death

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Scrooge’s grave

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Stave 4 ‘worthy place’ ‘overrun by grass and weeds’, ‘growth of vegetation’s death’ ‘ choked up with too much burying’ ‘I am not the man I was’

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Rag + bone shop

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Stave 4 Scrooge ‘wicked old screw’, ‘Bed-curtains’ ‘blankets’ ‘shirt’, ‘unwatched, unwept, uncared for’, themes: choices

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Turkey

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Stave 5 ‘prize Turkey’, ‘I’ll give you half-a-crown’

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Religion stave 5

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‘he went to church’, ‘churches ringing out’. Church stv 3 ‘the steeples called good people’

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Scrooge’s actions -stave 5

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‘A merry Christmas’ ‘chuckle’ ‘raise your salery’ (‘strait-waistcoat’) ‘not a farthing less’ ‘I have come to dinner’. ‘I am as happy as an angel’ ‘i’m quite a baby’. ‘His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him’

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Marley’s ghost

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  • themes: friendship, choices -scares Scrooge ‘disturbed the very marrow in his bones’, ‘spectre’, ‘money-changing’, ‘Incessant torture of remorse’, ‘never painted out Old Marley’s name’, ‘I wear the chain I forged in life’
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Scrooge at start

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  • changes in novella, starts off as ‘gruff old bell’, ‘no warmth could warm’ ‘frosty rime’, ‘solitary as an oyster’, ‘fog and darkness thickened’, ‘Bah!’ ‘Humbug!’
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Scrooge’s house

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‘Gloomy suite of rooms’, ‘handful of fuel’ weather in ‘mournful meditation’

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Themes of fred

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-family, christmas spirit, choices (persistant), friends (fred’s party),

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Fezziwig theme

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Chritsmas spirit, friends, choices(generosity)

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Ghost of christmas present

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  • pagan tradition, christmas spirit, ‘All of mankind’, ‘holly wreath’, ‘green robe’, ‘throne’ of food, ‘jolly giant’ ,’sprinkled incense’ (sprinkling christmas spirit). ‘Antique scabbard (case for sword)’ ‘but no sword’ (peacefullness)
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Want and Ignorance

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Criticising poverty and education system, ‘All of mankind’ ‘Man’s’, ‘meagre, yellow,scowling’, ‘pinched and twisted’, ‘Doom’. Lying ‘prostrate’ (lying flat on ground head down)

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Ghost of christmas past

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‘Like a child’, ‘voice was soft and gentle’, ‘from crown of its head sprung a bright clear jet of light’

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Ghost of Christmas yet to come/future

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‘Solemn phantom’, ‘draped and hooded’ ‘kind hand trembled’(single sentence paragraph) ‘I am not the man I was’

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purpose of the novella

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To promote social responsibilty in the 19th century, criticism of treatment of poor people(eg. Changes of marley’s ghost, created due to result of the negative attitude towards poor), importance of christianity in 19th century and throughout novella- dickens challenging notion of a good Christian promoting the idea of someone helping less fortunate

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When was christmas carol published

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1843

  • start of victorian era
  • hungry 40s- economic uncertainty
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What happened in same year as published

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  • first commercially produced chritmas card

- start of commercialisation of christmas

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Poor law intrdouced

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1834

  • no longer give financial support to able bodies0 forced to work
  • poor housed in workhouses, clothed an fed, had to work inside, families seperated
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Scrooge talking to ghost of christmas present

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‘A tremendous family to provide for’ ‘more than eighteen hundred’

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Ultimatum given by ghost of christmas yet to come

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‘If these shadows remain unaltered by the future the child will die

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Cratchits benefit for death of scrooge

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Bob ‘extrardinary kindnes of Mr Scrooge’s nephew’

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