BELLE

• "a fair young girl"

  ADJECTIVES (fair, young)

  • beautiful and innocent
• "another idol has displaced me"

  METAPHOR

  RELIGIOUS LINK

  • scrooge has another idol (money)
  • shouldn't make false idols
  • values money more than love and family
• (she speaks)

  "gently" "softly" "mildly"

  ADVERBS

  • kind and soft person
• "a dowerless girl"

  ADJECTIVE (dowerless)

  • dowery - money for marriage
  • talks about herself
  • has no monetary value
• "may you be happy in the life you have chosen"

  PRONOUN (you)

  • scrooge's fault of the failing relationship
  • implied - knows he won't be happy
• "she left him and they parted"

  COMPOUND SENTENCE(THEY PARTED)

  DECLARATIVE (she left him)

  • doesn't chase her back