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.
Eduqas's essay on this novel marks context as much as response and analysis: weave context into the argument, and treat the printed extract as a starting point, ranging across the beginning, middle and end of the novel.
