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GCSE English Literature · key term
A lack of basic necessities such as food, clothing and shelter; this is the meaning embodied by the girl named Want.
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Paper 2
Revise: Stave ThreeBob’s willingness to drink his employer’s health can be read as Christmas forgiveness. He wants to preserve goodwill and reminds his wife of the children and the day. It can also reveal the deference expected of a worker dependent on an employer’s wages.
Paper 1
A lack of basic necessities, including adequate food, clothing and shelter. Dickens gives this condition the form of a girl named Want.
Either question: connect education and the Ragged Schools specifically to Ignorance and Want or Dickens’s treatment of neglected children, rather than adding an unrelated context paragraph.
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Further visits follow before the Spirit reveals Ignorance and Want. These changes of setting broaden the lesson: companionship matters across differences of income, occupation and location, but goodwill must not become an excuse to ignore suffering.
