PPT-Title: A Christmas Carol, By Charles Dickens

SOW AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1 Section B Date Autumn Y11 This novella prioritises The joy of family The importance of the Christmas spirit Light and happiness in the darkest of places. Hero or villain. Hero?. Dickens is a hero because he wrote so many books for children to enjoy.. Dickens also made Christmas more popular by one of his books called …….. A Christmas Carol. Villain?. Charles Dickens. He . was. . born. . at  . Portsmouth, . England. . (. 7 February 1812—9 June 1870). At . age five, Charles moved to . Chatham.. At age ten, . his family moved to Camden, . London.. Dickens, the Mill Girls, and . the Making of. A Christmas Carol. Diana Archibald, U. Mass, Lowell, for conceiving of and coordinating the Dickens in America conference in 2002 and the Dickens in Massachusetts exhibit at the Lowell National Historic Park in 2012 and for organizing the lecture series that ran in conjunction with the exhibit.. Charles John . Huffan. Dickens. early alias: . Boz. Born: February 7, 1812 . Portsmouth England. Charles Dickens. Married: Catherine (Hogarth) Dickens. April 2, 1836 in St. Luke's Church, Chelsea. 10 Children. A CHRISTMAS. CAROL. STAVE 3. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest English writers. He was born near Portsmouth, in the south of England, on 7th February 1812.. Charles Dickens died on 9th June 1870. He was 58 years old. Dickens in buried in the famous church, Westminster Abbey, in London.. . . In . Stave Four, Dickens creates a sense of dread towards death with a simple plot device—the ghost of Christmas Future showing Scrooge the effects of his own death and its meaninglessness in gradual, foreboding revelations. Scrooge visits a cold and rainy London of the future, where he hears old business colleagues joking about the death of somebody they knew but did not personally care about. EVIDENCE - While Scrooge begins to sense that the subject of their discussion led a meaningless life, he does not realize that the he, himself is that subject is himself. Dickens builds this sense of dread in another scene—the dead man’s belongings have been plundered by the grimy, destitute, selfish scavengers of London. Scrooge visits these bottom-feeders as they are hawking his very own belongings in a depressing pawn shop. EVIDENCE However, Scrooge is still unaware that he is the dead miser who kept ‘everything to himself’ in life, unintentionally preserving his belongings for plunderers.. A Tale of Two Cities. Background . Charles Dickens (1812-1870). The most famous English writer of his time, and one of the most celebrated of ours. . Focused on social injustice and the effect of the industrial revolution on the middle class.. . bereft. of her, so it must be.. If he were doomed to be. The Mayor of Casterbridge. --Thomas Hardy. bereavements. ;for he wore. sustained a good many. at leas four mourning rings… . The. French. Revolution. Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825). David was the foremost artist during the French Revolution and in the Neoclassical style. He lived through the entire French Revolution and the Napoleonic era. . Chapter 1. Marley’s Ghost. Marley, was dead. There was no doubt. He was Scrooge’s business partner and his only friend.. Scrooge was a greedy man, cold inside and out. No one ever stopped him to stay hello. He wasn’t even happy on Christmas.. “. Dickens manipulates the readers through religious sensibilities, real life examples of Victorian attitudes to poverty and using a Christian time of celebration to create a long-standing and relevant message about humanity. First published 1860-1861. Serially. Do Now: 14 March 2012. Choose an important person (or people) in your life who has (have) expectations for you—parents, teachers, friends, coaches etc. What are others’ expectations of you? . To understand how Dickens creates a gloomy and dark atmosphere through his use of language and structural features . The Life of Charles Dickins. Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. His schooling from the age of nine was limited due to his father being imprisoned for bad debt. Separated from his family, the young Dickens was sent to work in a blacking factory where he worked in appalling conditions. This must have been a traumatic experience for a young boy and Dickens would have endured great loneliness, pain and hardship. He eventually returned to school after three years of labour and his experiences became particularly immortalised in his novels David Copperfield and Great Expectations. Dickens eventually succeeded in becoming a journalist.. Written in 1843. 6,000 copies were sold between . D. ec 19. th. and Dec 24. th. 1843. 30 million copies were sold by 2014 – showing the universal popularity of a story about . change and redemption.