Literature A Christmas Carol (Paper 1 Section B) Flashcards
Plot
A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens about Ebenezer Scrooge, an old man, who is well-known for his miserly ways.
Themes
Christmas
Redemption
Social injustice (class system)
Characters
Ebinezer scrooge
Bob Crachit
Fred
The Ghost of Christmas Past
The Ghost of Christmas Present
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
Tiny Tim
Victoria London
In Victorian times, when Dickens was writing, poor children would often be sent to live in workhouses.
How to answer the question
2x peed on first bullet point
2x peed on second bullet point
Chapter One
Scrooge is still working with bob cratchit in the counting house
Fred comes in and invites Scrooge to join his family at Christmas
Scrooge come home and sees a ghost of Jacob Marley on the door. Later he then comes again later and tells Scrooge that he will suffer the same as him if he didn’t change his ways
He then explains that 3 ghosts will come and visit him and that that’s is his only way of saving his self
Chapter Two
The ghost of Christmas past comes
It takes scrooge to the place he grew up and how he spent Christmas alone
He then gets taken to his old job working with fizzlewig and gets shown him dancing and his ex girlfriend Bella (he shows her grown up with a family)
Scrooge struggles with the ghost to make him stop.
Chapter Three
The ghost of Christmas present turns up all jolly and friendly
They then go and cost bobs house and they see him enjoying his family’s company
He then travels around the world to see everyone enjoying Christmas
They then visit Fred’s house and they see his friends taking the mic out of Scrooge for his attitude towards Christmas.
Finally they go and see two starving children called ignorance and want. They warn Scrooge of them
Chapter Four
The ghost of Christmas yet to come comes to collect Scrooge
The ghost is silent and takes him to a graveyard and points towards a random persons grave
A UNDERTAKER and a CLEANER come into scrooges house and take his belongings and even his shirt that he was wearing
He then goes to bobs house where tiny Tim has died as they didn’t have enough money for medical bills
Then they go back to a grave yard and point at a grave with scrooges name on it.
He then promises that he will change for the better of it
Chapter Five
Scrooge finds him self back in his bed
He relishes that it’s still Christmas Day he then laughs and buys a turkey for the crachits and joins Fred for dinner
Then he gives bob a pay raise the next day
We are then told that tiny Tim will survive and that Scrooge celebrates Christmas for the rest of the years yet to come.
