Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim
Characters
What you need to know
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 working poor, whom the 1834 Poor Law seemed to punish for poverty that was no fault of their own, and Dickens's concern for poor and disabled children.
OCR's question on this novel is one essay, from a choice of two, for 40 marks: an extract-based question on the printed extract and the novel elsewhere, or a discursive question on a view of the novel, using at least two moments. Response (AO1) and language, form and structure (AO2) carry the most weight and equal weight, context (AO3) counts when it is relevant to the question, and 4 marks are for vocabulary, sentence structures, spelling and punctuation (AO4). An extract-based answer that never leaves the extract, or a discursive answer built on one moment, cannot go above Level 3. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the question it is for.
