CHRISTMAS PRESENT

• "kind, generous, hearty nature"

  • triple adjective could be seem to have biblical allusions to the holy trinity in which is three parts of God
  • 3 adjectives could be an allusion to how the ghost is there to bring scrooge back to his religious moral foundations
• "ivy reflected back the light" "sparkling eye"

  • explores the motif of light - symbolises hope throughout the novella - the ghost is offering Scrooge another opportunity of hope and promise for the future
• "if he be like to die he better do it and decrease the surplus population"

  • repeated back to scrooge by the ghost
  • emulates scrooges heartless malthusian views
  • talks about tiny tim