scrooge

• scrooge doesn't care about anything except money
• at the start of the novella scrooge is described as " a squeezing , wrenching , covetous old sinner"
• what is scrooge described as at the start of the play

  " a squeezing , wrenching , covetous old sinner
• scrooge is miserly
• belle ( scrooges old fiancee ) suggested that scrooge worships money as if it was a god and his love for money is greater than his love for belle
• scrooge is cold - hearted and unfeeling
• scrooge is unsympathetic towards other people
• scrooge has no interest in helping the poor
• scrooge does not care about anyone except himself
• what does scrooge have no interest in

  helping the poor
• what does indifferent mean

  lack of enthusiasm
• at the start of the novella scrooge is bitter
• what is a quote that shows that scrooge is bitter

  " no wind that blew was bitter than he "
• " no wind that blow was bitter than he " - this shows that scrooge is bitter
• the characters of ignorance and want show that different types of ignorance can lead people to becoming trapped in different ways
• scrooges ignorance of hardships means that he has a lack of friends , This leads him to be trapped in his lonely ways . Compare this to the character of Ignorance who suggests that a lack of education leaves the poor trapped in poverty .
• scrooges past has shaped him
• As the reader discovers more of scrooges past it becomes easier to understand why scrooge is so bitter and cold
• scrooge was left at his old school at Christmas by his dad this could be an indication on why he hates Christmas so much
• throughout the visions scrooge is forced to see him self as others see him and how they talk about him when he is not around
• when scrooge is not around Mrs cratchit calls him an " odious , stingy , hard , unfeeling man"
• tiny tim shows scrooge that poor people are people too
• seeing tiny Tim helps scrooge to feel empathetic again
• scrooge asks the spirit if tiny Tim will die, with " an interest he had never felt before "
• tiny Tim's situation makes scrooge start to care about other people more
• Scrooge is "overcome with penitence and grief" when he relises how wrong he has been.
• scrooge starts to accept that helping people like tiny Tim is his responsibility
• at the end of the novella scrooge laughs at himself and says that hes as "marry as a school boy "
• at the end of the novella scrooge learns to be charitable , he buys the cratchits a turkey and makes a large donation to charity