Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim
Characters
What you need to know
How Dickens presents Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim, and how the character develops across the text: the deserving poor and the family Scrooge comes to help.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'a dismal little cell', 'tried to warm himself at the candle', 'They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed', 'God bless us every one!', 'the Founder of the Feast', 'If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die', 'My little, little child!', 'I'll raise your salary', 'who did not die, he was a second father'.
Context: the deserving poor, and Victorian sentiment about children.
Edexcel's novel question has two parts, and neither marks context: part (a) on the printed extract marks language, form and structure (AO2); part (b) on the novel elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1), not language analysis. Use context only where it explains a reading, and say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
