How Dickens presents Fred, and how the character develops across the text: Christmas spirit, kindness and family.
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 merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!', 'a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time', 'fellow-passengers to the grave', 'I am sorry for him; I couldn't be angry with him if I tried', 'Will you let me in, Fred?'.
Fred as a contrast to Scrooge and a link to his dead sister, Fan.
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.
