A Christmas Carol Flashcards
“Oh!But he was a ____-______ hand at the grindstone Scrooge! A _________, ___________, ___________, ___________, ________, _________, old ________! Hard and sharp as _____, from which no steel had struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and _______ as an _______.”
“Oh!But he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.”
‘ “If they would rather ___,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the ________ ____________.’
‘ “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.’
“I wear the _____ I _________ in life”
“I wear the chains I forged in life”
-Marley
“__________ was my business”
“Mankind was my business”
“The dealings of my tease were but a drop of water in the __________ _____ of my __________”
“The dealings of my tease were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business”
-Marley
“Would you so soon put out, with _______ hands, the _______ I give? Is it not enough that you are on of those whose ___________ made this cap, and forced me through whole trains of years to wear it low upon my brow!”
“Would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give? Is it not enough that you are on of those whose passions made this cap, and forced me through whole trains of years to wear it low upon my brow!”
Significance of” “There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should have given him something: that’s all.”
“There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should have given him something: that’s all.”
Start of Scrooge’s redemption into a nicer person
“A small matter”,”to make these silly folks so fully of gratitude”
“Why! Is it not? He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money”…..
“It isn’t that,” said Scrooge, heated by the remark”He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pressure or a toil.”
“The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune”
Significance of “No. I should just like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now. That’s all”
Second sign of Scrooge’s redemption
Going back and thinking about his past decisions and how he could have been a better person
“What idol has displaced you?”
…..
“A golden one”
“Spirit!” said Scrooge,”………”
“Why do you delight to torture me?”
“Show me no more”
“Why to a poor one most?”asked Scrooge
“Because it …………..”
“Because it needs it most”
Scrooge talking to the ghost of Christmas present
Showing how the poor need caring for in our society instead of being cast aside into a workhouse
Who says “God bless us every one!”
Tiny Tim
“They are Man’s”
“This boy is ________. This girl is ________.”
“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want”
“What happens after “If there is any person in the town, who feels emotion cause by this man’s death,”said Scrooge quiet agonised, “Show that person to me,spirit,”
He is taken to a small family in debt to Scrooge who rejoice after finding out he has died and they are for now debt free.
This relates to Dickens circumstance as his dad had to go to a debaters prison
