Solitary child quote

• Scrooge: ''A SOLITARY CHILD, NEGLECTED BY HIS FRIENDS, IS LEFT THERE STILL.''
• Scrooge's childhood

  • His father didn't allow him home for the holidays
  • He would stay at school completely alone rather than spending time with his family at Christmas
• Semantic field of isolation

  • 'solitary' and 'neglected' creates pity for Scrooge as a young helpless boy
  • Scrooge's response is that he 'sobbed' suggesting an emotive-perhaps traumatising-effect on Scrooge
• Being able to relive this moment with Scrooge

  Creates pathos
• Whilst Scrooge chooses to be alone now, the quotation suggests that he didn't have a choice in childhood
• This could perhaps serve as an explanation for his preference for a solitary life