fred

• “christmas is a time where men and women open their shut-up hearts freely and think of people below them”

  • emphasises the way in fred’s point if view, christmas has the potential to bring out the best in people, making them kinder and more empathetic
  • “below them” is important as fred realised the most important thing about christmas is thinking of those who are less well off than ourselves
• “i have always thought of christmas as a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time”

  • Fred insists that the spirit of christmas benefits him even though the spirit does not profit him - a concept foreign to Scrooge, as scrooge does not yet realise not everything is about wealth and profit
  • the tetra-colon climax highlights the happiness that christmas brings to everyone all over the word, and is perhaps an instructing for how we should all act at christmas time