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Pity for Scrooge
Section B - 19th century prose. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Choose ONE question. This is the extract-based option.
How does Dickens encourage you to feel pity for Scrooge, in this extract and elsewhere in the novel?
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- 1 extract
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Why this answer loses marks
Blames Belle as the villain and treats her as the cause of Scrooge's selfishness.
The examiner report notes this as a weaker misreading of the extract.