A Christmas Carol quotes Flashcards
This describes that he does not want to let go
‘he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’
This describes the behaviour of scrooge and what he wants
‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner’
This describes that he is very lonely
‘solitary as an oyster’
This describes that he is cold and careless
‘hard and sharp as flint’
This describes that he is as cold as the cold weather and shows that he has a mean personality
‘The cold within him froze his old features’
This suggests that scrooge would always be cold even in a warm place
‘He carried his own low temperature always’
This describes that his room is as cold as he is
‘he iced his office’
This is a fairytale beginning which suggests that the bad things can turn into the good things
‘Once upon a time…’
This suggests that scrooge does not like the poor
‘he might keep an eye on his clerk’
This shows that scrooge is fire is small
‘Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked
like one coal’.
He can not change his actions
‘He couldn’t replenish it’
This suggests that he can only use it for himself and no one else
‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’
A thick mist
‘The fog came pouring in’
His eyes ……….
‘His eyes sparkled’
Scrooges words
‘Bah humbug’
