A Christmas Carol Quotes Flashcards
Doesn’t like to let go of his money
‘He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’
Lots of adjectives describing scrooge
‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner’
Very lonely but has a surprise that can be released
‘Solitary as an oyster’
Can hurt people but can also be used as a light
‘Hard and sharp as flint’
He is so evil that that darkness froze him
‘The cold within him froze his old features’
He was always a cold man
‘He carried his own low temperature always’
He was so cold it froze everything
‘He iced his office’
A fairy tail story
‘Once upon a time’
Very untrusting
‘He might keep am eye on his clerk’
Scrooge was very selfish
‘Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fore was so very much smaller like one coal’
Once it was gone it couldn’t come back
‘He couldn’t replenish it’
He kept all his belongings to himself
‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’
He seemed happy
‘he was all in a glow’
His eyes were like stars
‘his eyes sparkled’
The word scrooge says when someone says merry christmas
‘Bah!…Humbug!’
Scrooge thinks he is a better person now
‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’
Fred likes christmas
‘I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last’
Where scrooge thinks the poor people should go
‘Are there no prisons?’
Scrooge meets Want
‘We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is
keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’
Nothing
‘Nothing!’
Scrooge hopes the poor die
‘If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the
surplus population’
Not involved
‘It’s not my business’
Bad weather
‘Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so’
The weather was cold
‘The cold became intense’
