A Christmas Carol

• scrooge - Hard and.......


  sharp as flint
• This quote implies scrooge is a self inflicted loner but also suggests that there's more to him just like an oyster which can be prised open to find a pearl inside.


  As Solitary as an oyster
• He carried his .............

  own low temperature with him
• If they'd rather


  Die they'd better do it and decrease this surplus population.
• Its not


  my busisness
• Are there no.....


  Prisons? Are there no workhouses?
• list of negative adjectives that represent scrooges misanthropic attitude.

  a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner
• What right do you have to be

  merry? What reason do you have to be merry? your poor enough.
• I have come to dinner...


  Will you let me in Fred?
• Ill send it


  to bob cratchitt.
• Therefore I am


  about to raise your salary
• What shall I put you down for?

  Nothing, scrooge replied.
• What does scrooge do in stave one when a carol singer come to the door?

  Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the carol singer fled in terror.
• What does scrooge say to bob when he asks for one day of at Christmas time? You'll want all day tomorrow, I suppose? said scrooge. If quite convenient sir.

  Its not convenient.
• what does the clerk do in stave one in the hopeful effort to keep warm?

  He tried to warm himself at the candle
• What does the clerk do in his optimistic effort to keep warm?

  The clerk put on his white comforter
• Darkness is


  Cheap and scrooge liked it.
• I don't make myself merry


  at Christmas and I cant afford to make idle people merry.
• I will honour


  Christmas in my heart
• Whats Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money ;a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer.

  but a time for paying bills without money ;a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer.
• A description of Fred which juxtaposes scrooges harsh description in stave one

  His face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled....
• What does scrooge do to his office in stave one

  He iced his office in the dog days and didn't even thaw it one degree at Christmas time.
• Dickens description of scrooges bodily features which reflects his miserly personality.


  The cold within him froze his of features made his eyes red , his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his voice.
• Marley ...........
• Old Marley was


  as dead as a doornail.
• What does Marley's Ghost wear

  I wear the chain I forged in life.
• What does Marley's ghost finally realise about what his real business in life was?

  Mankind was my business.
• Fred ...................
• What is Fred's description of Christmas in stave one?

  Christmas is a good time, a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
• Don't be angry uncle...

  Come dine with us tomorrow.
• I want nothing of you;


  I ask nothing of you ; why cannot we be friends.
• Scrooges offences carry their

  own punishment. who suffers? himself!
• Ill give you Mr Scrooge


  The founder of the feast
• The description of the clerk fire in stave one....

  The clerks fire was so very much smaller that it looked like only one coal.
• What does belle say about scrooge displacing her?

  Another idol has displaced me a golden one.
• Ghost of Christmas past......
• (The boy carol singer) THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST STARTS TO BRING OUT A change in Scrooge as he begins to reflect on his recent behaviour towards others.....

  I should like to give him something that's all.
• a solitary child


  neglected by his friends is left there still
• This ghost shows Scrooge his younger self so it is fitting that he adopts the appearance of both young and old.

  It was a strange like figure -like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man.
• Quote describing how the folks at Fezziwigs party take pleasure in the small things.....


  A small matter to make these folks so full of gratitude