A Christmas carol

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    • scrooge - Hard and.......
      sharp as flint
    • This quote implies scrooge is a self inflicted loner but also suggests that there's more to him just like an oyster which can be prised open to find a pearl inside.
      As Solitary as an oyster
    • He carried his .............
      own low temperature with him
    • If they'd rather
      Die they'd better do it and decrease this surplus population.
    • Its not
      my busisness
    • Are there no.....
      Prisons? Are there no workhouses?
    • list of negative adjectives that represent scrooges misanthropic attitude.
      a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner
    • What right do you have to be
      merry? What reason do you have to be merry? your poor enough.
    • I have come to dinner...
      Will you let me in Fred?
    • Ill send it
      to bob cratchitt.
    • Therefore I am
      about to raise your salary
    • What shall I put you down for?
      Nothing, scrooge replied.
    • What does scrooge do in stave one when a carol singer come to the door?
      Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the carol singer fled in terror.
    • What does scrooge say to bob when he asks for one day of at Christmas time? You'll want all day tomorrow, I suppose? said scrooge. If quite convenient sir.
      Its not convenient.
    • what does the clerk do in stave one in the hopeful effort to keep warm?
      He tried to warm himself at the candle
    • What does the clerk do in his optimistic effort to keep warm?
      The clerk put on his white comforter
    • Darkness is
      Cheap and scrooge liked it.
    • I don't make myself merry
      at Christmas and I cant afford to make idle people merry.
    • I will honour
      Christmas in my heart
    • Whats Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money ;a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer.

      but a time for paying bills without money ;a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer.
    • A description of Fred which juxtaposes scrooges harsh description in stave one
      His face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled....
    • What does scrooge do to his office in stave one
      He iced his office in the dog days and didn't even thaw it one degree at Christmas time.
    • Dickens description of scrooges bodily features which reflects his miserly personality.
      The cold within him froze his of features made his eyes red , his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his voice.
    • Marley ...........
    • Old Marley was
      as dead as a doornail.
    • What does Marley's Ghost wear
      I wear the chain I forged in life.
    • What does Marley's ghost finally realise about what his real business in life was?
      Mankind was my business.
    • Fred ...................
    • What is Fred's description of Christmas in stave one?
      Christmas is a good time, a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
    • Don't be angry uncle...
      Come dine with us tomorrow.
    • I want nothing of you;

      I ask nothing of you ; why cannot we be friends.
    • Scrooges offences carry their
      own punishment. who suffers? himself!
    • Ill give you Mr Scrooge
      The founder of the feast
    • The description of the clerk fire in stave one....
      The clerks fire was so very much smaller that it looked like only one coal.
    • What does belle say about scrooge displacing her?
      Another idol has displaced me a golden one.
    • (The boy carol singer) THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST STARTS TO BRING OUT A change in Scrooge as he begins to reflect on his recent behaviour towards others.....
      I should like to give him something that's all.
    • a solitary child

      neglected by his friends is left there still
    • This ghost shows Scrooge his younger self so it is fitting that he adopts the appearance of both young and old.
      It was a strange like figure -like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man.
    • Quote describing how the folks at Fezziwigs party take pleasure in the small things.....
      A small matter to make these folks so full of gratitude
    • Quote, that contradicts scrooges past attitude towards his clerk which highlights that his heart softening and he begining to change...
      I should like to be able to say a word or two my clerk just know, thats all.
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