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An essay plan for Charles Dickens' novel "A Christmas Carol".

1. Write about "A Christmas Carol" is Charles Dickens' Christmas and story and how, in this day, it would have been read aloud to groups of listeners
2. Write a little about Dickens' attitude to poverty and social injustice and Dickens own experience of poverty.
3. Say you are going to discuss how Dickens presents the character of Ebenezer Scrooge both to entertain his readers and to make them think about the poor and about charity and meanness.
4. Write about how Dickens describes Scrooge appearance and what effect this description has on the reader.
5. Look at how, throughout the chapter, Dickens uses the weather to help describe and to make us feel the coldness of Scrooge character
6. Write about how the different settings described in the chapter emphasis Scrooge cold and mean character
7. Give examples of how Dickens uses languages to make us see Scrooge character
   1. adjectives
   2. metaphor and similes
   3. humour
   4. repetition
   5. lists
8. Discuss how successfully you think that Dickens has been in describing the character of Scrooge in Chapter one and how this will influence the rest of the story.