quotes

• ''Marley was as dead as a doornail'' (stave 1)


  -supernatural/time-
• ''hard and sharp as flint'' (stave 1)


  -generosity and compassion-
• ''he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled.''~Fred~ (stave 1) 


  -family-
• ''are there no prisons?'' asked scrooge'' (stave 1)

  -social injustice/poverty-
• ''I don't make myself merry at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry.'' (stave 1)


  -christmas and tradition-
• ''I wear the chain I forged in life'' (stave 1)

  -redemption/responsibility-
• ''or would know,' pursued the ghost, 'the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself. It was full as heavy and as long as this. Seven Christmas eves ago, you have laboured on it since. It is a ponderous chain!'' (stave 1)


  -supernatural/time-
• ''he tried to say, 'humbug!' but was stopped at the first syllable'' (stave 1)


  -christmas and tradition-
• ''It was a strange feature-like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man.'' (stave 2)


  -supernatural/time-
• ''The school is not quite deserted... A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.'' (stave 2)

  -social injustice/poverty-
• ''A lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire.'' (stave 2)

  -isolation and loneliness-
• ''Scrooge wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.'' (stave 2)


  -isolation and loneliness-
• ''There was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that's all.'' (stave 2)


  -redemption/responsibility-
• ''A little girl, much younger than the boy, came darting in, and putting her arms around his neck, and often kissing him, addressing him as her 'dear, dear brother.'' (stave 2)


  -generosity and compassion-
• ''Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home's like heaven!'' (stave 2)


  -family-
• ''He called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice.' ~Fezziwig~ (stave 2) 


  -Christmas and tradition-