A Christmas Carol Flashcards
5 quotes for Scrooge
.” Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses.”
.” I will honour christmas.”
. “Bah! Humbug”
. “decrease the surplus population.”
. “Spirit, tell me if Tiny Tim will live!”
2 quotes for tiny Tim
.” God bless everyone.”
. “How did LITTLE Tim behave”
2 quotes for jacob marley
.” I wear this chain forged in life.”
.” Mankind was my business.”
2 quotes for the ghost of christmas past
.” A solitary child.”
. “put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?” - Suggests Scrooge is rejecting the truth because of his materialism and focus on money. Rhetorical question.
2 quotes for the ghost of christmas present
.”This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both.”
.”Come in! and know me better, man!”
2 quotes for the ghost of christmas yet to come
.”It is a fearful thing to see the future.”
. “the dark figure still pointed.”
2 quotes for Bob Cratchit
.”Mr. Scrooge, the founder of the feast!”( says this twice)
.”God bless us, every one!”
1 quote mrs cratchit says
. “piece of my mind to feast upon”
2 quotes Fred says
.”for I pity him.” - suggests Fred is feeling sympathy for Scrooge and wants to help him by inviting him over for dinner every year.
. “Merry Christmas, Uncle!” - almost ironic his mother also helped Scrooge like Fred is doing now. The writer uses the repetition of this to show how joyful Fred is
2 quotes fan says
. “I have come to bring you home, dear brother!… Home, home, home!”
. “Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven!”
(This reveals a moment of hope and love in Scrooge’s otherwise lonely childhood.)
One quote belle says to scrooge (Scrooge’s ex fiance)
. “Another idol has displaced me” “A golden one.”
( Money is more important to scrooge than she is)
2 quotes for fezziwig
.” He has the power to make us happy or unhappy.”
. “The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.”
Extra quotes are…
“Solitary as an oyster.”
