A Christmas Carol Characters Flashcards
Scrooge
• squeezing wrenching, grasping, clutching covetous old sinner’
• froggy get colder+ stiff + misanthropic ice
• let me profit by it
• light as a feather happy as an angel merry as a schoolboy giddy as a drunken man
Fred
• so, heated himself with a rapid walking in the fog. He was all the glow
• a kind, charitable, forgiving pleasant time (CONT) rich, poor, uncle nephew
• God bless you
• never benefit
Marley
• dead as a door nail
• the eyes were perfectly motionless + mankind was my business
• cash boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel
• torture capture, condemned
Fezziwig
• kind outgoing, community orientated, social
• capacious, substantial, vast
• organ of benevolence
• Fortune
• like moons + light
The cratchits
• not a handsome family+ happy grateful pleased content
• dismal little cell
• upon Bob shoulder + this child will die
• God bless us, everyone
Ghost of Christmas past
• light v/ dark + fluctuated
• liable to fall+ light and robe
• could not hide the light
• upon Scrooges heart
Ghost of Christmas present
• Jolly giant + plenty’s horn
• throne, antique and rusty scabbard
• are there, no prisons, no workhouses
• sorrowful
• ignorance and want
Ghost of Christmas yet to come
• grave + shrouded in a deep black garment
• scattering gloom
• silent
• The spirit stronger yet repulsed him
• sow the world with life immortal