FRED

• foil to scrooge
• ‘merry christmas uncle! god save you! cried a cheerful voice’


  EXCLAMATORIES

  • cheerful emotions
  • foil to scrooge
  • joy and merry

  ADJECTIVE (cheerful)

  • jolly and happy
• ‘he was all in a glow; his face was all ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled’


  METAPHOR ( he was all in a glow)

  • link to goodness and redemption

  ADJECTIVES ( ruddy and handsome)

  • positivity
  • lovely person

  VERB (sparkled)

  • so lovely
  • kind
• ‘why cannot we be friends?’


  QUESTION

  • genuine intrigue
  • sadness
  • link to redemption
  • what reason does scrooge have not to connect with people

  NOUN ( friend)

  • connection
  • social comment
• ‘left the room without an angry word’


  ADJECTIVE (angry)

  • retains kindness
  • no hostility
  • complete foil to scrooge
• ‘bright dry, gleaming room’


  POSITIVE ADJECTIVES

  • to be valuable and precious
  • light - positivity and joy
• ‘blest in a laugh, holding his sides, rolling his head and twisting his face in the most extravagant contortions‘


  ASYNDETIC LIST OF LAUGHTER

  VERBS AND ADJECTIVE (extravagant

  • whole self is laughing
  • infectious joy
• ‘after a while they played at forfeits, for it is good to be children sometimes‘


  SOCIAL COMMENT

  • powers of memory
  • never forget childhood