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Question 1

Scrooge overview

Answer 1

Dickens uses character of scrooge as vehicle
To chastise the ignorance of the rich to the plight of the poor
Whilst also placing focus an individual’s capacity to change, should they wish to take responsibility for their actions
Scrooge incrementally transforms from a miserly individual to a progressively more reflective character either the assistance of tue ghost who act as catalyst in his journey of redemption.
He also highlights the formative impact of childhood experience through Scrooge’s callous facade and hard demeanour
By the close of the novella, he is transformed into an altogether more altruistic character who seeks to re-inter-grate himself into society by helping others.
Dickens also uses Scrooge to address the issue of poverty in the mid victorian era,
with the hope of changing his reader’s attitude towards the poor from complacency and indifference to compassion and altruism

Question 2

Fred overview

Answer 2

Dickens uses…. As a vehicle
To highlight the importance of generosity and kindness towards tohers
Fred portrayed as a particular positive, compassionate and considerate individual who embodies the teachings of the bible; a detsil which would have resonated with Dicken’s predominantly christian readership.
Fred acts as the direct antithesis of Scrooge’s initial character
Dickens may have created such a contrasting description in order to bring attention to the capacity and need for every individual to show kindness, regardless of their social status

Question 3

Scrooge first para

Answer 3

“Covetous old sinner”
“Solitary as an oyster”
“Decrease the surplus population”
“Darkness was cheap, and scrooge liked it”

Question 4

Scrooge second paragraph

Answer 4

“A solitary boy, neglected by his friends, is left there still”
“Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the spirit and was overcome with penitence and grief”
“Have they no refuge or resource”

Question 5

Scrooge last para

Answer 5

“It is unlikely to be a very cheap funeral…for upon my life i don’t know anybody to go for it”

“Scrooge listened in horror”

“I’ll raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family”

Question 6

Fred first para

Answer 6

“‘What right do you have you to be dismal? What reason do you to be morose? You’re rich enough” (stave 1)

“Though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and i say, God bless it” (stave 1)

“his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled”

“There are many things from which I might have e derived good, by which i have not profited” (stave 1)

Question 7

Fred second paragraph

Answer 7

“Always a delicate creature, whom a breath might have withered… but she had a large heart” (stave 2)

“I mean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not, for i pity him” (stave 3)

“A merry Christmas… to the old man… he wouldn’t take it from me, but may he have it nevertheless” (stave 3)

Question 8

Fred last para

Answer 8

“If i came be of service to you in any way… thats where i live” (stave 4)

“Let him in! It is a mercy he didn’t shake his arm off” (stave 5)

“It really seemed as if he had known our tiny tim and felt with us”