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.
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.
