Christmas Charol Flashcards
Horrible person
‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!
Tight with money
He was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone
Hard exterior with good on the inside
Solitary as an oyster
Hard but also brittle
hard and sharp as flint
He stopped himself
The cold within him froze his old features
He was always cold
He carried his own low temperature always
He doesn’t use a lot of coal
he iced his office
The beginning of a story tale
Once upon a time
He has no trust on his clerk
he might keep an eye on his clerk
Showing his christmas spirit
Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked
like one coal
No trust or sharing
He couldnt replenish it
Scrooge doesnt trust bob
Scrooge kept the coal box in his own room
Fog
The fog came pouring in…’
Fred talking to scrooge
”A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice’
Talking about fred
He was all in a glow
Talking about a face
His eyes sparkled
Scrooges line
Bah! Humbug
He believes its done him good
.‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’
They will keep their humor
‘I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last’
Prisons
‘Are there no prisons?’
A time when want is felt
We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is
keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’
Nothing
Nothing
Surplus population
‘If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the
surplus population’
Hes not interested
‘It’s not my business’
It got dark and gloomy
‘Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so’
It got really cold
‘The cold became intense’
The great fire with men and boys
‘Had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged
men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their
eyes before the blaze in rapture’
Accusing bob of stealing
A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of
December!’
Bob went down a slide
The clerk…went down a slide…and then ran home to Camden Town’.
Scrooge had a boring dinner
Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern’
Marley is dead
‘Marley was dead, to begin with’.
Scrooge is sole
sole mourner’, ‘sole friend’
The door knocker
not a knocker, but Marley’s face’
Darkness being cheap
Darkness is cheap and scrooge liked it
The chain
The chain he drew was clasped around his middle’
Talking about marleys chain
‘It was long…made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and
heavy purses wrought in steel’.
Jacob marley intorducing himself to scrooge
In life i was your partner, jacob marley
Doomed to wander
Condemned’ ‘Doomed to wander through the world’
Talking anout the chain in life
I wear the chain I forged in life’
Talking about making the chain
I made it link by link’
Would you know
Would you know the weight and length of the strong coil you bear
yourself?’
Mankind and business
Mankind was my business
