Stave 2

• "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, ​is left there still" ​Scrooge said he knew it. And he sobbed.


  1. Asyndetic list - Dickens adds emphasis to Scrooge's loneliness by isolating the describing words (E.g. solitary, neglected, left)
  2. "is left there still" suggests that Scrooge hasn't made any friends since then almost as if he is stuck in the past
• "Leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer!"


  1. Exclamative sentence
  2. Shows how mentally broken he is (GOC Past is meant to break Scrooge down)