The Ghost of Christmas Past — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Characters
What you need to know
How Dickens presents The Ghost of Christmas Past, and how the character develops across the text: memory and the light it sheds on Scrooge.
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: 'like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man', 'a bright clear jet of light', 'Your lip is trembling', 'Your reclamation, then', 'A solitary child, neglected by his friends', 'Another idol has displaced me'.
Light and memory, and why Scrooge tries to put the light out.
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.
