The Ghost of Christmas Present: the Cratchits, Fred's party, and Ignorance and Want.
Key quotations: 'a jolly Giant', 'Come in! and know me better, man!', 'They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed', 'God bless us every one!', 'If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die', 'Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?', 'the Founder of the Feast', 'This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want.', 'most of all beware this boy', 'Are there no prisons?', 'Are there no workhouses?'.
Context: Ignorance and Want, the Ragged Schools, and Dickens's argument for education.
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.
