A Christmans Carol Quotes Flashcards
This metaphor show how tight scrooge is with money
‘he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’
This list of adjectives describes scrooge
‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!’
This tells us that scrooge is lonely but also hints that he has some hidden Christmas spirit in him
‘solitary as an oyster’
Flint is hard and cold and this foreshadows scrooges character but also shows hidden Christmas spirit as flint sparks
‘hard and sharp as flint’
Cold hearted
‘The cold within him froze his old features’
Scrooges cold heart is always the same and never changes
‘He carried his own low temperature always’
No coal in his office
‘he iced his office’
cliché start to a fairy tail
‘Once upon a time…’
Scrooges Christmas spirit is very small but his clerks Christmas spirit was massive even tho his life wasn’t perfect.
‘Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked
like one coal’.
Scrooge trusts nobody and is so stingy that he wont give any coal to his clerk
‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’
Using the verb pouring makes the fog seem like its creeping in.
‘The fog came pouring in…’
By using the adjective cheerful we know its fred
‘”A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice’
The adjective ‘glow’ and ‘sparkles’ represents warmth and the light of the Christmas spirit
‘he was all in a glow’
‘his eyes sparkled’
What Scrooge says when he’s annoyed
‘Bah!…Humbug!’
Scrooge hates Christmas and hates its humor
‘I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last’
The homeless have ah big fire
‘Had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged
men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their
eyes before the blaze in rapture’
The cold on christmans
‘The cold became intense’
It was foggy and dark
‘Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so’
Scrooge does not care. In his eyes it is mot his…
‘It’s not my business’
The most evil thing scrooge says in the novella saying the homeless should jus die
‘If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the
surplus population’
Christmas is a time to be with people and to rejoice
‘We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is
keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’
Scrooge is asked to raise momey for the homeless and he responds with
‘Are there no prisons?’
Scrooge thinks his clerk is stealing money (like a pick pocket) from him because he gets played on his one day off of the year
‘A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of
December!’
The clerk was so JOLLY that it was Christmas eve and ran ho,e to his family
The clerk…went down a slide…and then ran home to Camden Town’
Scrooge thinks his clerk is stealing money (like a pick pocket) from him because he gets played on his one day off of the year
‘A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of
December!’
The clerk was so JOLLY that it was Christmas eve and ran ho,e to his family
The clerk…went down a slide…and then ran home to Camden Town’
