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A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens About the Author Charles Dickens • 1812-1870 • Famous author and social campaigner • At 12 began working full days at a warehouse • Work conditions and cruel treatment influenced Dickens’ later writings Birth/ Early Life • One of eight children • Favorite pastime when young was reading • Photographic memory of people he met and things he read • Raised in a middle class family --Family debt forced young Dickens to begin working --Father placed in debtor’s prison More about the author Writing •Wrote most of his stories in short installments for newspapers •Used cliffhangers- story pauses, leaving character in an exciting or difficult situation •Paid by the page– contributes to the length of his stories Important Works • • • • Great Expectations A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist A Christmas Carol •David Copperfield •Pictures from Italy •A Trial for Murder From Books to Movies • Many of Dickens’ famous works were later turned into movies --A Christmas Carol -- A Tale of Two Cities --Great Expectations --Oliver Twist Death • Died of a stroke after working on his last novel Edwin Drode • Died exactly 5 years after being in a train accident Dickens’ writings Social Commentary • Disliked the division between social classes in Victorian England • Felt that the poor were treated unfairly • Advocate for charity Victorian Christmas Traditions • Many Christmas traditions celebrated today were introduced during Dickens’ time •Decorating Christmas trees •Christmas cards •Gift giving from parents to children •Traditional Christmas carols •Christmas stories Theatre Terms •Dialogue– words spoken by characters. Preceded by characters’ names in plays •Dramatic monologue– speaker in play addresses a silent listener •Gesture– physical movement of a character during a play •Props– articles or objects that appear onstage during a play More theatre terms • Soliloquy– character reveals thoughts by talking aloud to himself; not meant to be heard by anyone else onstage • Aside– actor speaks directly to audience; is not heard by others onstage • Monologue– only one character speaks; others onstage can hear him • Playwright– author of a play More theatre terms • Stage directions– comments given by the author to describe dialogue, setting, and action of a play • Staging—position of actors on stage, backdrops, costumes, props, and lighting • Blocking– movement and position of actors on stage within a scene • Theme– unifying subject or idea of story • Symbol– object that stands for something other than itself • Characterization- The act of creating and developing a character • Direct Character- A writer states the characters’ traits or characteristics • Indirect Character- A writer depends on the reader to draw conclusions about the character traits Figurative Language Project • “A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley is filled with figurative language. • Go through the play and find one figurative language quote.(word for word copied from the text) • Make a colored illustration that describes the quote, include the quote, the name and the page number. • This is worth a quiz and a classwork grade. Do your BEST and be NEAT! ;0)