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.
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.
