A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a story specifically wrote to give the reader a strong sense of tension. The author begins to builds up to the the sense of narrative tension is by adding commas instead of full stops. And example of this is when Charles repeats the words, then. This influences the way the reader reads the extract. Instead of stopping its bombarding the reader with information again, and again, and again. The impact of this on the reader is exactly as dickens wanted to be put on guard and be wary about what is to come. In the extract dickens also uses words that we instantly have negative connotations about. This can be seen when Dickens uses words like: “chamber, dragging, clanking and heavy”. The