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’
The first words we hear from fred
‘A merry christmas uncle god save you cried a cheerful voice’
Shows that Fred is light
‘He was all in a glow’
Fred thinks that christmas will benefit him
‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’
Scrooge asking about prisons
‘Are there prisons’
This quote talks about how christmas is not about spending money but it is about a time of joy
‘We chooses this time because it is a time of all others when want is keenly felt, and abundant rejoices’
What Fred has done him good
I belive it has done me good and will do me good
What Fred thinks about his christmas humour
Ill keep my christmas humour to the last
…….nothing
‘Nothing’
Scrooge says the shocking quote in the book
If they rather die… they had better do it and decrease the surplus population
Scrooge says its not my …..
Its not my business
The fog getting thicker
Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so
How extreme the wether is
The cold became intense
Talks about how the poor are warming their hands on a great fire
Had lightened a great fire in a brazier round which a party ragged men and boys were gathered warming their hands and wrinkling their eyes before the blaze in rapture
Scrooge talking about bob having a day off
‘A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of
December!’
This talks about how happy bob is having one day off every year
‘The clerk…went down a slide…and then ran home to Camden Town’.
