Christmas Carol Quotes Flashcards
Scrooge is tight with money
‘he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’
A long list of adjectives describing Scrooge
‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!’
Scrooge is solo and likes to be by himself
‘solitary as an oyster’
The cold in his body has frozen his body parts
‘The cold within him froze his old features’
Scrooge is a tough man and doesn’t like to show he’s weak
‘hard and sharp as flint’
We know there’s going to be a happy ending
‘Once upon a time…’
Scrooge doesn’t trust Bob so he always keeps an eye on him so he does his work.
‘he might keep an eye on his clerk’
Scrooge is tight and doesn’t want to waste his coal on Bob so only gives him a small amount
‘Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal’.
Scrooge didn’t allow Bob to have a big fire
‘He couldn’t replenish it’
The simile is showing that he is emotionless and is half hearted
‘hard and sharp as flint’
The adjective iced is used because Scrooge doesn’t use much coal and so it is cold in his office because he wants to save his money
‘he iced his office’
This metaphor is showing how hard-hearted Scrooge is
‘He carried his own low temperature always’
Scrooge kept all the coal in his room so he can save it and not need to spend his money but if it was Bob he would want a nice warm fire
Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room
