Stave 4

Cards (6)

  • The last Ghost, the most terrifying of them all, the Ghost of Christmas yet to come.
  • The Ghost is draped in a dark black cloak and replicates the grim reaper (a person who typically brings people to their death). He is unalike to the other ghosts, he doesn't speak, instead uses his hand and finger to point.
  • He shows Scrooge at first some rich uppe-class men talking about a funeral and speaking about a dead individual in economic terms. It is revealed they are speaking of Scrooge.
  • Scrooge's servant is shown to have taken his belongings and even the curtain of his death bed, to sell to a man called "Old Joe". This whole stave shows the carelessness of people towards Scrooge in his death - a harrowing realisation for Scrooge.
  • We are taken back to the Cratchits' home and they are all devastated by the death of Tiny Tim.
  • The last scene is when Scrooge is shown his neglected grave. He pleeds for a chance of redemption and salvation, and whether these events can be reversed if he alters his behaviour.