How Dickens presents Fred, and how the character develops across the text: Christmas spirit, kindness and family.
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 merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!', 'a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time', 'fellow-passengers to the grave', 'I am sorry for him; I couldn't be angry with him if I tried', 'Will you let me in, Fred?'.
Fred as a contrast to Scrooge and a link to his dead sister, Fan.
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.
