stave 2

• How does Schoolboy Scrooge contribute to understanding Scrooge's character?

  • Reveals his troubled past
  • Shows his isolation during childhood
• Who comes to take Scrooge home for Christmas?

  His sister Fan
• What does Scrooge see when he remembers his younger self at boarding school?


  A lonely boy reading near a feeble fire
• What does Fan's character reveal about Scrooge's childhood?

  • He was still loved in his childhood
  • There is hope for redemption in his future
• The Ghost of Christmas Past

  "I told you these were shadows of things that have been. That they are what they are, do not blame me!"

  ‘He [Scrooge] could not hide the light which streamed from under it in an unbroken flood upon the ground ’
• Schoolboy Scrooge

  ‘A lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire’

  ‘Scrooge wept to see his poor forgotten self
• Fezziwig


  ‘He has the power to render us happy or unhappy’‘The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune’
• Belle

  ‘In whose eyes there were tears, which sparkled in the light’

  ‘What idol has displaced you?’ ‘A golden one.’
• Fan

  ‘I have come to bring you home, dear brother!’

  ‘Father is so much kinder than he used to be’
• belle talking to husband about scrooge


  “Quite alone in the world, I do believe.”