Stave one

• “Squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, Clutching, covetous old sinner “

  1. asyndetic list of negative adjectives
  2. Helps the reader understand how how evil he is even before we see him commit any bad actions
  3. 7 adjectives represent the 7 deadly sins
• “Nobody ever stopped…No beggars…No children…No man or woman ever in all his life”

  1. Scrooge is an outcast to society
  2. scrooge is misanthropic
  3. triplet Shows the amount of people that dislike him
• "merry Christmas uncle! God save you!"..."Humbug!"


  -juxtaposition between Fred and scrooge

  -shows it doesn't run in the family and scrooge has become like this through sin

  -religious language of god- denies god shows how deep routed his corruption is
• "every idiot who goes around with merry christmas on his lips should be..boiled in his own pudding"


  -violent imagery to express his hatred

  -plosive alliteration of boiled and pudding "b" "P" "D"
• "i wear the chains i forged in life"

  1. shows how his spirit will be affected avarice actions in life