change

• scrooge rejects change and refuses to acknowledge his apathetic nature, ostracising himself from society
• solitary as an oyster
• external heat and cold had little influence
• little cell
• What reason have you to be merry? Your poor enough
• If they had rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus
• Scrooge begins to unlock painful, buried emotions from his past that begins to facilitate his recognition for his need to change
• A solitary child, neglected by his friends
• power to render us happy or unhappy
• I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk
• Another idol had displaced me
• i was a boy
• Why do you delight to torture me?
• Scrooge realises change may be challenging and is still unable to take full accountability of his actions
• as good as gold and better
• drew round the hearth in a circle
• who suffers by his ill whims, himself always
• started back appalled
• have they no refuge or resource. cried scrooge
• Taking action is proved integral to change as scrooge pleads for redemption as his regret begins to become all consuming
• recoiled in terror
• I will live in the Past, Present and Future
• Oh tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone
• Scrooge changes from a covetous, miser into a benevolent, charitable member of society
• glowing with good intentions
• taking the old gentleman by both his hands
• to Tiny Tim he was a second father