Family Flashcards
Topic sentence 1
Dickens shows the importance of family and how pushing away your family can cause you to miss out on happy moments
“Why can we not be friends”
Scrooge pushes away his nephew and doesn’t want to go to Christmas dinner with his family
“Friend to join in”
Scrooge sees how much fun everyone is having at the party and tries to join in with everyone but can’t because he isn’t there. This make him realise how much fun and happiness he could have had with his family that he has now missed out on
Topic sentence 2
Dickens shows the importance of family and how if Scrooge wasn’t so greedy the. He could have had a family with belle
“Laughed heartily,enjoyed it very much”
Scrooge envy’s belle and her family and how much fun they had and wishes he could be part of their family
“What idol has displaced you”
Scrooge chose money over the chance to love and have a family with belle
Topic 3
Dickens shows the importance of family and how when I loved one dies they are not forgotten but remembered
“Neglected grave”
Nobody cared about Scrooge as he never cared about anyone other than himself and never wanted to be with his family
“We shall no quarrel easily among ourselves and forget tiny Tim in doing”
Tiny Tim was loved and a big part of the cratchit family and now whenever the cratchits quarrel they will remember tiny Tim and will stop.
Message
Dickens message about family is that with a family you can be loved and remembered and won’t be forgotten but if you push your family away then you won’t be remembered and will be forgotten