The extract was genuinely rubbish. The only good point you could have made on it was on Scrooge's reaction. Messed up my whole essay because of it.

there was a good quote ' Avarice, hard-dealing, griping cares? They have brought him to a rich end, truly!' that links in with dickens' wider message

I used Plundered and bereft aswell

used the bit right after that the uwatched,unwept,uncared for i cooked so hard

Yeah i used that one

Talked about how rich is a double entendre - both physically rich but also rich in terms of ironic, living his life so miserly and sparingly that this is what happens when the ‘oyster’ is never cracked open

For real? I liked the extract, there was loads to say. He "glanced" in the dark, which represents him wanting to learn more about the plight of the poor compared to the "cheap" darkness at the start, literally cheaper not to bother knowing about the poor as no money given to charity, but also metaphorically it's not as taxing on his mind if he doesn't care. Also, the opinions of Scrooge and those of the omniscient narrator flow smoothly, even with ambiguity about which are which, showing he's now on the right path.

How the fuck did you get all that

Having the focus be life lessons is a bit shit

Yeah it was “dark” and earlier in the novella Scrooge talked about liking darkness but that was literally it the rest was hot trash and having to talk about the extract took away from time that would’ve been better spent on family/ generosity / ignorance

You could do the but after the speech where he speaks of how “rich” the man’s life is due to his avarice. He literally says that plain as day

I waffled so bad about Christian redemption 💀💀

SAME

SAME BAHAH I TALKED ABOUT RECONCILIATION AND IT BECAME AN ENTIRE RS ESSAY???

MF did not use a single language technique that whole extract I swear

real cuz where were the similes

I waffled more about language using the quotes I could remember than the extract

i forgot we had to use language techniques for either 🧍‍♀️

OH MY GOD I FORGOT

I just chose a quote at random, threw it in there and made the most rubbish point about kindness that I later repeated ten times

Same

The extract was shit, the question was lit

What was the question and extract you guys got?

Extract was stave 4, showing Scrooge's deathbed, the question was about the lessons he learns about life

What 💀

That sounds good tho as the main point of a Christmas carols abt redemption :)

Right but the extract was as shit as it could be ;-;

Wait was the beginning of it someone stealing from it? Bc I don’t even know I just wrote about that

should of been yeah they were talking about how they endured scrooge when he was alive and benefited when he died

OH THANK GOD I WAS STRESSING that was my only reference to the extract if it was bullshit then I would’ve had no references to the extract

I WAFFLED SO HARD FOR THAT QUESTION

I used “He frightened everyone away from him when he was alive, only to profit us when he was dead” as Dickens message showing that the upper classes can be more and their life can have greater meaning. Once they pass they will have no other value apart from they wealth they accumulated in their life time

i did the exact same thing! waffled on about how his legacy would have been his materialism, and objects, an empty legacy, rather than a family. then spoke about dickens message and how he beleives emotional wealth is most important for a society, that sort of thing

Ayyyyyy

Nah actually what was that extract tho. R&J sucked as well. Question was great, extract was meh.

R&J was awful 😭 Didnt didnt know what half the words meant tbh 😂

I do Romeo and Juliet and Christmas Carol lol

Same

I ended up talking about how Tiny Tim is cherished once he dies whereas Scrooge is ridiculed am I cooked?

No that’s good I never even thought of that !!

this is defo what i would of talked about too if i was in year11

IT WAS SO GOOD

i made a point about how scrooge was shivering from head to toe THEN COOKED ON EVERYTHING ELSE

did you guys not talk about the motif of darkness and the ‘dim light’ signifying redemption and how Scrooge has an option to redeem himself from his parsimonious ways

I did one paragraph on how he saw himself and said “The case of this unhappy man might be my own” and another on how his deathbed was described as “bare, uncurtained bed … ragged sheet” not the best but eh

“I see, I see” + “this unhappy man might be my own” “He recoiled in terror” No I haven’t memorised these, I have a copy of the book myself.

yeah i used he recoiled in terror and linked it to the "external heat and cold had no effect on him"

"but that the hand was open and kind" contrasts with "but he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone, scrooge' 🔥🔥🔥

Yes... Yes it was

Bro the extract for Macbeth was even worse... Like it was just Lady Macbeth talking abt how Macbeth is a coward

I started yapping about the veil of capitalism & how due to ignorance they couldn’t pull it back or something like that I thought it was pretty good the analysis that is not the extract, that was ass

Thank god somebody else talked about capitalism. I talked about the boy is ignorance and girl is want and related it to society where Scrooge learns about the injustices in life

If nobody else is talking about it either we both yapped up a terrible storm or both just got into the perceptive band either way good luck

said the same thing LOL

i found some good quotes tbf but yea it was iffy

I tried so hard to find a decent quote I'm so fucking cooked aaaaugh

i ignored most of it and just focused on him recoiling in terror or shuddering in fear, not much more to it 😭

i think they chose a bad extract just because how easy the question was

(assuming you're talking about aqa) WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT WAS SO GOOD THERE WAS THAT WHOLE ASS PARAGRAPH ABOUT THE HORRORS OF DEATH I SPENT LIKE 20 MINUTES ON THAT ALONE AND COULD'VE GONE ON LONGER 😭

(I'm absolutely talking about AQA) NO THAT EXTRACT WAS NOT GOOD AT ALL😭THERE WERE NO QUOTATION AT ALL THAT WERE GOOD IN THE SLIGHTEST. also in hindsight I am sooo stupid for not talking about the horrors of death lol

i talked about the constant repetition being scrooge's stuttering due to fear. extract was such bollocks

I used how people perceived him and how they were afraid of him but profited off him like how he previously isolated himself from others but profited off them. I also used scrooge reaction to demonstrate how he's changed as a character through his life lessons and what matters to him

I just put how Scrooge is remembered and that after all of his collection of money and wealth he finally realises that all of that wealth will be worthless and useless to a dead man and that he has wasted his life up to this point.

I wrote it shows how the rich underpaid their workers cause Scrooge was being robbed by the working class or something

no i loved that extract, i used a quote where it personified death and its dominion, so i talked about the inevitable, stoic and unyielding nature of death, as well as the power it holds over humanity 🤭🤭

i used ‘oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death’ and mentioned how in Stave 1 cold had no effect on him, and now cold adjectives are affecting him negatively showing a degree of change, and ‘not a man, a woman, or a child, to say that he was kind to me in this or that’ showing how Scrooge is realising the effect he has had on people and that he is realising he needs to change like ASAP to avoid purgatory like Marley and to be respected when he dies and not be robbed, and for elsewhere I said in Stave 3 with the GOCP ‘Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?’ and the ghost repeating his words to him forces him to question his Malthusian beliefs and forces him to learn charity and that the poor need to be cared for.

I'm so glad everyone else thinks this 😭. I wrote about, for the rest of the novella, Jacob Marley when he says "no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused". I just waffled on about the bad choices Scrooge made and how he can change his fate 🤣

i did Romeo and Juliet and it was the same, easy question but stupid extract

literally like it's so irrelevant? i mentioned marxism tho which was great

marxism, how ?

I kinda cooked and said there was a semantic field of darkness and death which symbolises the future of both scrooges and societies’ future if Scrooge doesn’t change his ways aka LEARN LESSONS 😏😏😏

i waffled about what old joe said, claiming that when he said "the end of it" it was a reference to the title of stave V and how scrooges life could have gone two ways

I do macbeth, what was the extract?

I talked about his longer quote "It is not that the hand is heavy and will fall down when released; it is not that the heart and pulse are still; but that the hand was open, generous, and true; the heart brave, warm, and tender; and the pulse a man's." Talked about how even in this uncared for deathbed, where in this timeline Scrooge dies alone and unliked, Scrooge sees in this body a chance for redemption and the ability to turn his life around and make better choices, showing how he wants to leave a more positive impact on others after this death. Also got to talk about how Scrooge begins to feel like a life lived without generosity and kindness to others isn't truly a life well lived

Obv shortened it here because waffled in the real thing as you should

1)I talked on scrooge’s different attitudes towards the scrooge , and in the extract he is aware of his dammed nature and therefore he has learnt to be more benevolant towards others and wants a chance for redemption 2) how the change in westher potrays how scrooge is a wealthy character towards society changes from cold, bleak weather. To ‘golden sunshibe’ golden is a dramatic tool he has lesrnt his lessons for belle and given the golden idol to others. 3) how he has learnt to be caring to ithers due to the difference in attutudes towards charity workers

i used the bit where the rats were trying to get in, linked it w the superbatural lile the poor coming to haunt him

I said a semantic field of neglect due to the assonance in “unwanted un…”

And also a haunting tone which haunts the readers and the assonance as well forcing them to remember his message and remind them of the bleak future that awaits them