The Ghost of Christmas Past: Scrooge's childhood, Fan, Fezziwig and Belle.
Key quotations: 'like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man', 'a bright clear jet of light', 'Your lip is trembling', 'A solitary child, neglected by his friends', 'The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune', 'Another idol has displaced me', 'a golden one', 'Your reclamation, then'.
How memory begins Scrooge's change, and what Fezziwig and Belle show about money.
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.
