Homework 9 English

Question 1

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint: secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

Answer 1

the list emphasises how horrible he is
the simile shows how lonely he is

Question 2

“Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!”

Answer 2

bah humbug is a nasty thing to say near Christmas because it means grumpy or the dislike if something

Question 3

every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!”

Answer 3

this whole piece is a spiteful thing to say as most people really enjoy Christmas and to speak badly about it is not nice

Question 4

“Are there no prisons?… “And the Union workhouses?”… “The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?”

Answer 4

this shows how he has no interest for helping the poor and represents the rich in the Victorian era

Question 5

“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

Answer 5

this also shows how anti friendly he is and does not want to help the poor

Question 6

I am here tonight to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate.You will be haunted,” resumed the Ghost, “by Three Spirits.”

Answer 6

this would give scrooge a bit of hope and motivation to prove that t is not to late