How Dickens explores redemption and the possibility of change across the text, and why it matters to the text's meaning.
Where it appears, the key quotations that show it, and different ways it can be interpreted.
Evidence from the beginning, middle and end of the text.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'I wear the chain I forged in life', 'Your reclamation, then', 'I am not the man I was', 'I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year', 'as merry as a school-boy', 'knew how to keep Christmas well'.
Context: Christian ideas of repentance and redemption, and the novella as a parable.
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.
