guess the social responsibility, impoverished, charity quotes

Question 1

metaphor of scrooge’s obsession with work

Answer 1

‘But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone,’ (S1)

Question 2

scrooge rhetorical questions about what happens with the poor

Answer 2

‘“Are there no prisons?”’ (S1) Scrooge

Question 3

scrooge saying in terms of economics

Answer 3

‘“If they would rather die, […] they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”’ (S1) Scrooge

Question 4

asyndetic listing of the fu dam

Answer 4

‘cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel.’ (S1) - marleys chain

Question 5

marley saying how his actions reflect his afterlife

Answer 5

‘“I wear the chain I forged in life,”’ (S1) marley

Question 6

asyndetic list of describing the boy and girl

Answer 6

‘They were a boy and a girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility.’ (S3)

Question 7

ghost of xmas present warning scrooge

Answer 7

‘This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both,’ (S3) ghost of xmas present

Question 8

spirit fan hao with his own words

Answer 8

‘“Are there no prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?”’ (S3) ghost of xmas present

Question 9

mrs cratchit broken clothes

Answer 9

‘dressed out poorly in a twice-turned gown.’

Question 10

tiny tim jesus reference and being broken but want to spread happiness

Answer 10

‘hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas day who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.’ tiny tim

Question 11

tiny tim gonna die :(

Answer 11

‘I see a vacant seat […] If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die’

Question 12

• juxtaposition
• being tgt > food

Answer 12

‘nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family’

Question 13

• pathos
• concern for tiny tim
• he has a disability as well as being weak and malnourished as they don’t have enough to give me adequate nutrition or medical attention

Answer 13

‘held his withered little hand in his’
‘dreaded that he might be taken from him’

Question 14

• violent actions
• pain
• malnutrition

Answer 14

‘a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds.’