Stave 4

• “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all three shall strove within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me that I may sponge away the writing on this stone!”
• "Solemn dread" "horror" "Legs trembled beneath him"

  Scrooge's feelings when he sees spirit, showing his fear towards this spirit, which is the most intimidating of them all, suggesting that there are bad things to come if Scrooge doesn't change.
• "The phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached."

  This Ghost is significantly different from the others, and the use of triplets creates a mysterious effect on the reader.
• "I hope to live to be another man from what I once was"

  Scrooge, showing how he is going to change himself, and shows the theme of redemption.
• "Every person has the right to take care of themselves. He always did!"

  Mrs. Dilber believes that it is ok to steal and sell Scrooge's belongings as Scrooge never helped others while he was alive so why should she help him.
• "But I think he has walked a little slower the he used to, these past few evenings mother."

  Peter Bob's son shows the audience that ever since Tiny Tim's death, Bob still walks a bit slower home from work.
• " I promised him that I would walk there every Sunday. My little, little child!" "My little child!"

  Bob visits his child's grave every week, the repetition of little suggests to the audience that Tiny Tim became very small and frail towards the end.
• "Extraordinary kindness from Mr Scrooge's nephew"

  Bob Cratchit, showing that Fred is very different to Scrooge, as he was very kind to Bob when Tiny Tim dies.
• "Spirit, hear me! I am not the man I was"

  Scrooge, shows Scrooge's change, uses the exclamative to create effect.
• "I will honour Christmas in my heart"

  Scrooge, promises the spirit that he will change and embody the Christmas spirit like Fred and Fezziwig do.
• "read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, Ebenezer Scrooge"

  The spirit warns him that if he doesn't change then he will die and no one will care.
• "The spirits of all three will strive within me"

  Scrooge, saying that he will never forget the lessons that the three spirits taught him.