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Scrooges home is not like a home at all it is just a gloomy and isolated set of rooms
‘gloomy suite of rooms’
L - adjective
C - Gothic literature was very popular in victorian england and they were set in dark buildings like the one scrooge lives in
Some of the rooms belonged to his dead partner marley - ghostly
When Scrooge visits Fred on Christmas Day at the end of the novel, he realises what a home really feels like.
‘he felt at home within five minutes’
he has become emotionally warm from this interaction and wonders why he did not do this sooner
R - the reader feels happy for scrooge and they are glad he is with family
C - Dickens tried to emphasise how important family is in his novel to his readers
Dickens represents home as a busy and warm place.
Mrs C kissed Martha a ‘dozen times’
shows the emotional warmth and love they share for the eachother, they may not be rich but they are rich in love and happiness
C - their dinner conveys Dickens message about how important family is
