Scrooge

• Scrooge being lonely.

  "solitary as an oyster"
• Scrooge is described as...


  "Squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching"
• Scrooge is described as a...

  "covetous old sinner"
• scrooge being harsh...

  "Hard and sharp as flint from which no steel had struck out generous fire"
• Scrooge = cold

  "carried his own low temperature always about"
• Semantic field of cold words

  "Frosty" "Thaw" "iced"
• How is Bob's office described?

  "Dismal little cell"
• How does scrooge react to the people collecting money for the poor?

  "are there no prisons?" "and the union workhouses"
• How does scrooge react to the people collecting money for the poor? When told poor laws are still in order.

  "I was afraid...that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course"
• Scrooges ideas about the poor who would rather die.

  "If they had rather die then they better do it and decrease the surplus population"
• Scrooges house description

  "Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern"
• Scrooges house occupants.

  "for no one had lived in it but scrooge"
• Scrooge is not the only one causing the problem

  "The air was filled with phantoms"
• Governments

  "they might be guilty governments"
• Scrooges reaction when confronted with the first ghost

  "Who and what are you"
• Spirit moving to the window

  "The spirit made for the window"
• What does scrooge say when he remembers a carol singer is at his door.

  "I should like to have given him something, that's all"
• Fezziwig's fire

  "Fuel was heaped upon the fire"
• What Belle says as she leaves Scrooge

  "Another idol has displaced me... A golden one"
• What does scrooge do to the ghosts extinguisher cap?

  "Scrooge pushed it down with all his force...He could not hide the light"
• Scrooges reaction when confronted with the second ghost

  "For he wished to challenge the spirit on the moment of its appearance"
• Scrooge questioning about Tiny Tim's health

  "Tell me if Tiny Tim will live"
• When scrooge is presented with the third ghost

  "Scrooge bent down upon his knee"
• Scrooge knows what the ghosts are for

  "I know your purpose is to do me good"
• Scrooge's discomfort With the Ghosts lack of speaking

  "will you not speak to me?"
• Scrooge admitting his change to the phantom

  "I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been"
• Scrooge feeling the change

  "I am as light as a feather...happy as an angel. I am merry as a school boy.
• Scrooge going to the window

  "running to the window he opened it"
• The weather on Christmas day

  "No fog, no mist, clear"
• Scrooge sending the turkey

  He shan't know who sent it"
• Scrooge meeting the charity workers

  "Taking the gentlemen by both his hands"
• Improving bobs working conditions

  "Buy another coal scuttle"
• Scrooge is Tim's second father

  "To Tiny Tim he was a second Father"
• Closing line

  "God bless us, everyone"