ACC: Context Actual Exam Questions And Well Elaborated Answers.
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ACC.
What context should we include in our ACC exam? - correct answer - Dickens' himself and his attitudes
- Christmas
- Social Class
- Child Poverty
- Women
- Malthus
- Workhouses and Poverty
- Morality
- Christianity
Summary of the Context behind why Charles Dickens' wrote this ...
What context should we include in our ACC exam? - correct answer - Dickens' himself and his
attitudes
- Christmas
- Social Class
- Child Poverty
- Women
- Malthus
- Workhouses and Poverty
- Morality
- Christianity
Summary of the Context behind why Charles Dickens' wrote this novel - correct answer - Dickens'
early life gave him first-hand experiences of poverty
- He was a family man who loved celebrations and entertainment
- He was very concerned about poverty, especially how it affected children
- He used his popularity as a writer and people's love of Christmas to put across his message used in A
Christmas Carol
Who was Charles Dickens? - correct answer - Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth,
Hampshire
- His family was middle-class but his father lost his money and he had to go to a debtors prison
- As a child Dickens had to work in a factory
- He published his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, in 1836. He soon became one of most popular and
successful novelists in Britain
- He had ten children with his wife, Catherine, but the marriage was not always happy and they
separated. However, this did not alter his belief in family life
- He loved parties and would put on plays and entertainment for his family and friends
, - He campaigned throughout his life on issues of social reform, such as children's issues and those
affecting women, particularly "fallen" women
- He died in 1870
Why did Dickens' write A Christmas Carol? - correct answer - In 1843, Dickens' read a government
report on child labour in England
- The report was based on interviews that a journalist had done with children about their work
- Their stories are reflected in characters such as Martha Cratchit, who works long hours making hats for
rich people
-He wanted to use his popularity to bring the problem of child poverty to the eyes of the rich and wider
public
- His first idea was to write a pamphlet called "An Appeal to the People of England on behalf of the Poor
Man's Child"
- He soon realised that an entertaining story would have made much more influence.
- Dickens' decided to use a Ghost story, which was a more popular form at the time
What was the name of his original idea? - correct answer His first idea was to write a pamphlet called
"An Appeal to the People of England on behalf on the Poor Man's Child"
He soon realised an entertaining story would have a greater impact
Why did Dickens' set the story around Christmas? - correct answer - Some people go as far as saying
Scrooge "invented" Christmas as his work did promote Christmas
- He was writing at a time where Christmas traditions were being revived and some new ones
introduced
- Followed royalty: Prince Albert and Queen Victoria
- A Christmas Carol itself had become a part of the Christmas traditon
- Dickens' was able to use the fact that Christmas is traditionally a time of giving to remind people of the
Christian teachings about caring for others and helping the poor
A Summary of Social Class and Gender: - correct answer - Dickens includes a range of middle-class ad
working-class characters in the novel
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