[Music] hey YouTube community and welcome to the exposure quote series but we take quotations from the text that you're studying and blow up individual words and phrases in order to analyze them and make interpretations your exam requires you to remember quotations by heart this is not required to know every line from all of the text you've studied because that would be impossible you just have to think smart and learn key quotations rotations that can be used for a range of possible questions an examiner may give you and cover a range of themes and ideas I use a term explode because it choirs you to blow up the language into smaller pieces for you to work out the meaning of words and phrases and make interpretations exposing the quote helps you to pinpoint work classes and really think about the brightest choices of language and effect these individual words happen us as a reader this time I'll be breaking down key quotations for mr. Fezziwig from A Christmas Carol a Christmas carol is novella written by Charles Dickens the story focuses on the old mean penny Pyncheon businessman ever needs a Scrooge at a beginning of novella Scrooge hates Christmas and truce everybody around him terribly on Christmas Eve or ghost visit Scrooge first the spirit of his old business partner Jacob Marley who tells him that he will visited by three ghosts the ghost of Christmas past the ghost of Christmas presents and the ghosts of Christmas yet to come the ghost of Christmas past Tate Scrooge to see mr. Fezziwig in his youth Scrooge was an apprentice for him and upon seeing him Scrooge cried in great excitement conveyed to ask the fond and happy memories that Scrooge heads off Fezziwig when the moment Fezziwig is introduced Dickens uses positive language to describe him showing us that he is the foil of Scrooge fYI a foil is a character who slightly contrasts to another carrots in literature like with Fred Fezziwig is also a foil of Scrooge so Dickens describes how Fezziwig rubbed his hands adjusted his capacious waistcoat laughed all over himself from his shoes to his organ of benevolence and called out in a comfortable oily rich factor' jovial voice so explode the quote requires you to blood the language into smaller pieces during this process you should pick out key words and identify the word class it denotation to the meaning of the word the connotations will be associated with the word an effect it has on us as a reader also exploring the writers ideas so let's start with the work of patience capacious is an adjective so the word class which means to contain or be incapable of holding a great deal this is a denotation connotations means what we can associate with a word or phrase so in this case we can associate the adjective capacious with Fezziwig containing a lot of goodness inside of him and having a capability to be kind thus letting the reader know that Fezziwig is a foil of Scrooge so let's move on to the organ of benevolence the world organ is a noun which is part of your body that has particular purpose or function for example your heart or your lungs benevolence is also a noun meaning to desire to do good and be charitable at the time that Dickens was writing there was a clear divide between the rich and poor with the capitalist class having most of the wealth and power in society with Industrial Revolution and development in machinery some businesses prospered fulness however it also left many unemployed lives a poverty rioting and slums in large cities diggers himself faced hardship and was forced to work in a factory as child when his father was put into prison for being unable to pay his debts this main concern with the issues of the poor working class in Victorian society by Dickens describing Fezziwig as have an organ of benevolence Canosa Fezziwig being a vital function for those around him and for the more disadvantaged members of society as Fezziwig who represent a member of the capitalist class Dickens meant wanted to highlight to Victorian reader the goodwill of the wealthy was important for society the list of positive adjectives to describe Fezziwig chuck supposes that additives describe scrooge highlighted how different the men are we would wonder how Scrooge came to be such a mean employer and he didn't learn it from Fezziwig Dickens men wanted to show how the caps of his class had a choice what type of person they wanted to be kind and generous like Fezziwig on mean and selfish like Scrooge Dicker's continues to display face of its kind nature as he invites people into his home for a Christmas party Dickens uses repetition of in came conveying help welcoming ears you have a housemaid the Baker the cook the milkman a young boy girl the we can infer also affected by poverty as a boy was inspected of not having bought for his master and a girl had er is pulled by her mistress the use of the long sentences emphasizes the flow of people coming to fezziwig's home we can also see that the individuals being welcomed in his home are not people from his own class or backgrounds but those from poverty you may not be able to afford a decent meal this will make the Victorian reader reflect on who they are individual and how they are helping those less fortunate than they are it oughta make us as a modern reader do the same office fruit observes this diggers describes how his heart and soul were in the scene and with his former self he corroborated everything remembered everything enjoyed everything underwent the strangers agitation now it's your turn to try and explode the quotes use the questions to help you unpick the language use identifying work glasses denotations connotations effect on the reader and the writers ideas houses visits a Fezziwig cause a train in Scrooged once you analyze a quotation of work level why not try the following question it's Lord Dickens for presentation of Fezziwig and how he acts as a catalyst of change for Scrooge when writing your paragraph keep the assessment objectives you are being examined on in mind and use them to structure your paragraph so begin with a oh one and show your knowledge of the character and the question may can influence about Fezziwig they continue with a oh one and give a quotation to support your ideas and the question developing your interpretations then move on to a over to a new subject terminology by identifying a technique that has been used analyze the effects with the quotation and language use by using word level analysis the explode the quote method then draw on ao3 explore the context and make connections back to the text commenting on the writers ideas and effect he wants to have on us as a reader educated minds the community of sharing so why don't you share some of your ideas with other students in the comment section below don't forget to like share subscribe if you haven't already turn your notifications to keep up to date education - videos why not follow educated minds on Instagram Twitter and Facebook - until next time see ya [Music]