christmas carol

• what does christmas carol tell?


  how scrooge learns the value of caring for others
• what spirit visits scrooge first?


  Jacob Marley
• what does jacob marley warn scrooge?

  scrooges bitterness towards society
• what do the spirits show scrooge?


  scenes from past, present and future
• what do the vision scenes showed by the spirits do to scrooge?

  helped him realise he needs to change his ways
• is a christmas carol a novella?

  yes
• what is a novella?


  a short novel or a long short story
• at the start of stave 1, we learn a lot about scrooge's character and how he has treated people in the past
• how does the start of stave 1 help the reader?


  helps them understand scrooges character before the story starts

  builds an image and emphasises his horrible nature
• why did dickens describe marley as "dead to begin with"?

  Foreshadowing marley returns as a spirit
• "dead as a doornail" is a simile
• was scrooge marleys only friend?

  yes
• quote to show marleys only friend is scrooge

  sole mourner
• what does the adjective "sole" show?

  scrooge and marley were each others only friends
• scrooge has no living friends
• what does the quote "hard and sharp as flint" suggest?

  he is unfriendly and dismissive
• why is scrooges office always cold?

  heating the office would be useless as scrooge is so unfeeling and cold-hearted he would not even feel the heat
• quote to show scrooge is cold-hearted

  no warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him
• everybody who meets scrooge avoids any contact or discussions with him. beggars dont approach him
• what would people avoiding scrooge make the reader feel?

  sympathy as he is lonely
• dickens tells us that he likes that people fear him and "was the very thing he liked"
• quotes describing scrooge in stave 1

  • hard and sharp as flint
  • no warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him
  • being disliked "was the very thing he liked"
  • "sole mourner" of marley
• scrooges office is always cold as he doesnt even put the heating on in the winter
• how and when does the story begin?

  on christmas eve

  scrooge is in his counting house, working with his clerk, bob cratchit
• who is bob cratchit?

  scrooges clerk
• who is fred?

  scrooges nephew
• what does scrooge respond to fred when he wishes him a merry christmas?

  bah! humbug!
• why does scrooge say "bah humbug!"?

  he does not enjoy christmas
• what is scrooges attitude to freds wedding?

  he thinks its ridiculous