xmas future

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Created by
Dulcie Rogers

Cards (13)

  • XMAS YET TO COME
    pitying
    "the kind hand trembled"
    showing more tender emotion to scrooge
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    fearsome
    "his legs trembled beneath him"
  • XMAS YET TO COME
    patient
    "the spirit paused a moment [...] giving him time to recover"
    scrooge was at the beginning in control in his counting house and now he is begging and pleading to be given a second chance
  • XMAS YET TO COME
    literal
    "the only emotion that the ghost could show him [..] was one of pleasure"
  • XMAS YET TO COME
    gothic
    "the pahtom slowly, gravely, silently approached"
  • XMAS YET TO COME
    transformation
    "i fear you more than any spirit i have seen. but as i know your purpose is to do me good, i am prepared to bare your company and do it with a thankful heart"
  • XMAS YET TO COME
    1. large group of businessmen discussing a funeral
    • "i don't mind if lunch is provided"
    links - contrast between TT's death + scrooge's death
    • "cheap funeral"
    links - scrooge tight with money even in death
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    2. the smaller group of businessmen
    • "old scratch"
    insensitive, lack of sympathy, uncaring
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    3. the obscure part of town - old Joe's shop theives selling stolen possessions from a dead man
    • "he frightened everyone away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead"
    • "bed curtains"
    • the shirt that was put "on him to be buried in"
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    4. scrooge sees covered dead body
    • "unwatched, uncared for, was the body of this man"
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    5. young couple relieved that man dead due to debt owed
    • "she was thankful in her soul to hear it"
    • "the only emotion caused by the event was one of pleasure"
  • XMAS YET TO COME
    6. Tiny tims dead
    • "i promised him that I would walk there on a Sunday. My little, little child"
    links - they actually care
  • xmas yet to come you know the deal blah blah blah
    7. scrooge is shown his gravestone

    8. scrooge promises to change
    • "i am not the man I was"
    • "i will honour christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will not shut out the lessons they teach"