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A Christmas Carol Flashcards

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Responsibility - Malthusianism

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They had better [die] and decrease the surplus population

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Responsibility - Marley

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I wear the chain I forged in life

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Responsibility - Fezziwig’s use

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power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil

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Responsibility - Tiny Tim’s future

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If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die

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Responsibility - writing metaphor

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written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased

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Responsibility - Scrooge and Tiny Tim

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To Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father

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Responsibility - Marley’s business

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Mankind was my business

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Responsibility - Question about poor

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Are there no prison?

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Poverty - clerk’s fire

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clerk’s fire […] looked like one coal, But he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his room

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Poverty - Scrooge selfish

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I can’t afford to make idle people merry

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Poverty - blaming Spirit

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You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day

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Poverty - Mrs Cratchit

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dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for six pence

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Poverty - personification of food

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chestnuts on the fire sputtered and cracked nosily

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Poverty - Ignorance and Want

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Yellow, meagre, ragged, scrowling, wolfish

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Poverty - obscure part…

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obscure part of the town […] Scrooge had never penetrated before

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Isolation - simile at the start

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as solitary as an oyster

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Isolation - childhood

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A solitary child, neglected by his friends

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Isolation - Fred on about Scrooge’s rejection

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He loses some pleasant memories

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Isolation - who …?

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who suffers by his ill whims?

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Greed - simile at the start

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Hard and sharp as flint

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Greed - Scrooge on about Christmas

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poor excuse of picking a man’s pocket

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Greed - Belle argued with Scrooge

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What Idol has displaced you? […] A golden one

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Greed - funeral

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I don’t mind going if lunch is provided

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Transformation - Scrooge willing to learn

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if you aught to teach me, let me profit by it

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Transformation - similes at the end

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I am as light as a feather. I am as happy as an angel. I am as merry as a schoolboy.

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Transformation - cyclical contrast of weather

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foggy, withal vs No fog, no mist; clear, bright

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Christmas - Fred’s speech

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a kind, forgiving, charitable time

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Christmas Spirit - Fezziwig

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The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it costs a fortune

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Poverty - Cratchits’ dinner

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Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family

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Christmas Spirit - Tiny Tim

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God bless us

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Christmas Spirit - Ghost of Christmas Present

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a jolly Giant, glorious to see, who bore a glowing torch

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Poverty - poor going to bakery

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innumerable people emerged from bye-streets, lanes, nameless turnings

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When was it set?

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1843, after Industrial Revolution

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Transformation - Scrooge’s laugh

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for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh

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Transformation - cyclical attitude to Christmas

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Bah… Humburg! vs Merry Christmas!

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Fred - against winter

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He has so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost

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Fred - not greedy

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though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe it has me done good

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Fred - not angry about Scrooge

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left the room without an angry word, notwithstanding

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Fred - welcome Scrooge

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Why bless my soul! […] It’s a mercy he didn’t shake his arm off.

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Transformation - Scrooge treating Bob kindly

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I’ll raise your salary […] Make up the fires and buy another coal-scuttle

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Change - not believe in Marley’s Ghost

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You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato

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Change - changed by Marley

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tried to say ‘Humburg’ but stopped at the first syllabe

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Change - want to escape his past

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seized the extinguisher-cap, and by a sudden action pressed it down upon its head

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Change - leave but learn lesson

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In leaving it, I shall not leave its lesson, trust me

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Change - doesn’t know the purpose of the Spirit

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Why do you delight to torture me?

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Change - remember all lessons

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I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The spirits of All Three shall strive within me.

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Change - city know his change

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as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, borough, in the good old world

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Family - Scrooge wants Fred to go away

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I want nothing from you; I ask nothing from you; why cannot we be friends?

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Family - Little Fan

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Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven

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Family - Cratchits struggling but still happy

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They were not a handsome family; they were not well-dressed; thier shoes were far from being water-proof […] But they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another

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Family - Bob crying

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My little, little child!

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Family - Scrooge engaged in family

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Wonderful party, wonder games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness

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Family - Scrooge not in family

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in the dark empty house, with not a man, a woman, or a child, to say that he was kind

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