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OCR · GCSE · English Literature · Higher

The importance of family and friends

Q11.0 40 marks

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Choose ONE question. EITHER. The spirit takes Scrooge to the festivities of a community of miners.

Explore how Dickens presents the importance of family and friends in this extract and elsewhere in the novel.

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Marking points

  1. 1 Explore Dickens' presentation of the importance of family and friends in the extract and wider novel.
  2. 2 Use relevant references from the extract and elsewhere in the novel.
  3. 3 Analyse Dickens' methods, including setting, contrast, sound, imagery, allegory, and juxtaposition.
  4. 4 Link the response to relevant Victorian ideas of family, community, Christmas, and moral reform.

Why this answer loses marks

Family and friends are important because people are happier together.

This moralises the theme without using the extract, wider novel evidence, Dickens’ methods, or Victorian and allegorical context.