a christmas carol

• The Ghost of Christmas Present is described as "a jolly giant" with a rosy face, a round belly, and a hearty laugh.
• He wears a green fur-lined coat and carries a torch to light his way through the darkness.
• His eyes twinkle like stars on a frosty night, and he speaks in a deep, booming voice that fills Scrooge's ears.
• "the passion that had taken root" shows how hard this side of him will be to remove
• Ignorance represents the lack of education and knowledge among people, while Want symbolizes the neediness and deprivation experienced by many individuals.
• The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come appears as an ominous figure dressed in black robes and carrying a long staff.
• Scrooge sees Ignorance and Want bound together in chains, representing their interconnectedness and dependence on one another.
• The ghost explains that these two figures are the children of mankind, born from the same parents as humanity itself.
• The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge back to his childhood home where he sees his father and sister Fan.
• As they pass by a graveyard, the ghost points out a gravestone marked "Ebenezer Scrooge," indicating the bleak future awaiting Scrooge if he does not change his ways.
• "scrooge was better than his word" shows scrooges full redemtion and transformation
• "decrease the surplus population" shows scrooges ignorance and how he lacks social responsability
• "as solitary as an oyster" shows how isolated scrooge is
• "another idol has displaced me" shows how greedy scrooge is
• "i should like to have given him something" shows scrooges regret
• "tell me i may sponge away the writing on this stone" shows scrooges desperation to not end up like this and wants to change his fate
• "a merry christmas to everybody! a happy new year to all the world!" shows that scrooge now cares about others and wishes them well
• "the spirits of all three shall strive within me" shows that scrooge will try to be good but it won't always work out
• "my time is nearly gone" shows that scrooge knows he needs to make changes quickly
• "spirit, are there no prisons? are there no workhouses?" shows that scrooge still thinks money can solve everything even though he has changed slightly
• "you were always a kind master, sir" shows that cratchit was grateful for what little he had
• "i hope the person who made tiny tim useful might also have been kind enough to overlook the color too" shows that scrooge feels guilty for being mean to tiny tim because of his disability
• "and so much more besides" shows that scrooge realises that he doesn't need as much money as he thought he did
• "i wear the chains i forged in life" shows how guilty marley is and how he doesnt want scrooge to end up the same
• "mankind should have been my business" shows how marley regrets what he did in his life and how he now has to live with the consequences
• "you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate" show how marley cares for scrooge
• "who suffers by his ill whims? himself" shows how fred is pitying scrooge
• "i mean to give him the same chance every year whether he likes it or not" shows how determined fred is and how family is important to him
• "i have nothing to say against him" shows how loyal fred is
• "they are mans" shows how ignorance and want are made by actions. ignorance is the rich and want is the poor
• "a merry christmas to everybody! a happy new year to all the world!" shows how bob's character change from being miserable to spreading happiness
• "he was always a good man of business" shows how bobs character changes throughout the story