ACC quotes Flashcards
I wear the chain I forged in life… I made it link by link, and yard by yard”
Jacob Marley
“I am quite a baby”
Scrooge. By referring to himself as a “baby”, Scrooge shows his understanding that he now has the chance to start his life again.
“unwatched, unwept and uncared for”
About Scrooge. Scrooge is shown how people will react when he dies unless he changes his ways now. This is a turning point towards his redemption.
“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.”
Scrooge uses similes to show how much happier he feels.
“He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny tim, who did not die, he was a second father.”
About Scrooge in his changed attitude towards the cratchit family.
“God bless us, Every One!”
Dickens gives the final word of the novel to Tiny Tim, which emphasises his importance as a symbolic character. Dickens is making the point that the poor can be more deserving than the rich, and that we all have a responsibility towards each other.
what place is “reeked with crime, with filth and misery” and whose inhabitants are “half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly”?
a deprived part of london
