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A Christmas Carol
Poverty
Disease
Education
No education - poor people
not get a good job
Industrial revolution
Pollution
Long hours
Child labour
Bad pay
The poor law 1834
Workhouse
Not enough pay
Poor working conditions
Dangerous
Dickens
Worked from the age of 5
Worked 10 hours
Believed education was the route out of poverty
Worked in a blackening factory himself
Family went into debt
Unsanitary conditions
Not enough sewers to cope with the mass population
waste went into River Teme
Drinking water
waste
washed clothes and themselves in there also
Christmas
Victorian Era
Believed they were the inventors of the Christmas that we know of today
Serving turkey at Christmas came from the Victorian Era
Singing carols
Dickens believed Christmas was family time
Dickens believe Christmas was a time of peace and good will to all
Beliefs
Father Christmas wore a green suit
Green suit is a sign of spring returning
Church
Bells called people to church
Scriptural lesson were told with carols
Teachings of Christian mortality
Helping people in need
family time
Christmas day
Turkey for food
Family time
Games
Opening a present from Santa
Santa
Wore green
Green represented spring coming
New arrival
Hope
New beginnings
Dickens Life
Work
Blackening factory
Long hours
Not good pay
age 12
Fathers debt
Had to get a job
Moved in with an old woman, mean to him
Lost relationship with mum
Experiences that help with ideas for books
Living with old woman
Work
Experiencing inequality
Wrote books to teach society
The supernatural
Gothic Fiction
Supernatural
Ghosts
Imagination
Fascinating to Victorian era
Eerie and mysterious
Isolated locations
Graveyards
Abandoned houses
Victorian England
Ghost stories
Facinated by supernatural
Gothic
Strange noises & visions
Supernatural and ghosts in the story
Christmas past
Christmas Present
Christmas that is yet to come
Time travelling