A Christmas Carol Flashcards
Quote showing that scrooge is lonely
Solitary as an oyster
Quote showing scrooge never lets go of his money and never stops working for it
He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone
Long list of adjectives ( not perfect till you get the right order )
A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner
Quote showing he is emotionless and harmful
Hard and sharp as flint
Quotes showing that he is colder them winter ( there are 2 )
The cold within him froze his old feature
He carried his own low temperature always
Quotes showing that scrooge doesn’t trust Bob
He might keep an eye on his clerk
Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room
Scrooges small amount of hope
Scrooge had a small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so much very smaller that it looked like one coal
Quote showing scrooges lack of respect to Bob
He couldn’t replenish it
His office
He iced his office
What comes in and covers the poor
“The fog cane pouring in…”
Freds first line
“A merry Christmas, uncle” God save you” cried a cheerful voice’
Freds the opposite of scrooge
“he was all in a glow”
“His eyes sparkled”
Scrooges favourite expression
“Bah!…humbag”
Freds belief
“I believe it has done me good and will do me good”
Freds humour
“I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last”
Are there no
“Are there no prisons”
What christmas is
‘We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is
keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’
…
“Nothing”
What the poor would rather do
“If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population”
Scrooge doesn’t care
“It’s not my business”
Fog and darkness
“Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so”
Scrooges cold
“The cold became intense”
The poors hope
‘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’
Bob taking scrooges money on Christmas
“A poor excuse for picking q man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of December”
