A Christmas Carol

• a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!
• solitary as an oyster
• heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge
• Are there no prisons are there no workhouses
• If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population
• Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern
• I made it link by link and yard by yard- marleys statemnt about his chain
• like a child, yet…like an old man - christmas past
• “strong hand” “mildly” “gentle” - description of the ghost of christmas past
• ‘bright as a ballroom’ - description of fezziwigs warehouse
• Another idol has displaced me… a golden one - belle sayin that scrooge worships gold/ money
• “a jolly Giant” - ghost of christmas present
• “genial”, “sparkling”, “cheery” - ghost of christmas present
• ‘brave in ribbons’ - chratchit family
• ‘Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish’ - The children are extremely poor and destitute, symbolising the reality of many working class children.
• it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery” - Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
• "silent”, “ghostly”, “spectral” - ghost of christmas yet to come
• Unwatched, unwept, uncared for - scrooge finds himself dead in a bed
• “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel!” - stave 5
• ’I’ll raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family.’
• "Scrooge was better than his word”– he is truly a reformed character.
• “God bless Us, Every One!” - tiny tim
• “A merry Christmas, Bob! ” – Scrooge