A Christmas Carol
Lead/Hook: “What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ‘em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?” (Stave 1)
Quick Summary: Charles Dickens didn’t have a pleasant life as a child because his father was imprisoned and he had to work instead of going to school so his family had enough money to survive. Charles Dickens wrote this book to reflect upon his life and uses metaphors to tell his story. Also the book is put in staves or verses like singing because when you think of caroling you think of a group of people reciting a song.
Thesis: In “ A Christmas …show more content…
Analysis with transition: Turkey was the main dinner and course to eat on Christmas day and Charles Dickens was describing the typical meal.
Text evidence: “Turkeys had been brought to Britain from America hundreds of years before Victorian times.”
Analysis: Turkey was the popular thing to eat in victorian times and in the story Charles Dickens introduced that topic.
Analysis with transition: In, “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens uses Scrooge to show that turkey was very popular during victorian times and refers to Bob Cratchit because he was the one who received the turkey on Christmas Day.
Conclusion: Charles Dickens tells about his life in the victorian times and uses examples like a turkey at Christmas dinner to show what they ate and how much people appreciated it. Conclusion: Charles Dickens relates to his life in the book by telling about how his father was imprisoned for not paying debts and why the turkey was so important as a tradition during victorian times. These are some ways that the victorian times and as well as Charles Dickens life were shown in, “ A Christmas
Lead/Hook: “What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ‘em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?” (Stave 1)
Quick Summary: Charles Dickens didn’t have a pleasant life as a child because his father was imprisoned and he had to work instead of going to school so his family had enough money to survive. Charles Dickens wrote this book to reflect upon his life and uses metaphors to tell his story. Also the book is put in staves or verses like singing because when you think of caroling you think of a group of people reciting a song.
Thesis: In “ A Christmas …show more content…
Analysis with transition: Turkey was the main dinner and course to eat on Christmas day and Charles Dickens was describing the typical meal.
Text evidence: “Turkeys had been brought to Britain from America hundreds of years before Victorian times.”
Analysis: Turkey was the popular thing to eat in victorian times and in the story Charles Dickens introduced that topic.
Analysis with transition: In, “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens uses Scrooge to show that turkey was very popular during victorian times and refers to Bob Cratchit because he was the one who received the turkey on Christmas Day.
Conclusion: Charles Dickens tells about his life in the victorian times and uses examples like a turkey at Christmas dinner to show what they ate and how much people appreciated it. Conclusion: Charles Dickens relates to his life in the book by telling about how his father was imprisoned for not paying debts and why the turkey was so important as a tradition during victorian times. These are some ways that the victorian times and as well as Charles Dickens life were shown in, “ A Christmas