Scrooge light as a feather

• Scrooge: 'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school boy.'
• Scrooge


  Wakes up on Christmas morning feeling jovial and charitable
• Scrooge's actions


  1. Pays a young boy

  2. Collects a turkey

  3. Delivers the turkey to the Cratchits

  4. Presents his Christmas spirit
• Scrooge presents his Christmas spirit
• Juxtaposition of similes


  • Suggest that Scrooge has been reborn as a new man
  • Provides a stark contrast with his depiction as aged and shrivelled in Stave One
  • Shows that the inner child who imagined characters from books as alive and the young apprentice who revelled in Fezziwig's party are still there, buried deep inside
• Dickens uses a cyclical structure to show

  1. How Scrooge changes

  2. Scrooge achieves redemption
• Scrooge's behaviour and actions are contrasted


  From the start to the end of the novella
• Dickens uses the transformation of Scrooge's character


  • To give hope to all people that they can improve their lives