How Scrooge Changes Flashcards
‘squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching old sinner’
L - listing of verbs
Scrooge is described as a character who focuses on maximising his profit and not caring how he exploits his workers.
‘solitary as an oyster’
L - simile
Scrooge is described as a man who chose to live his life alone like an oyster in its shell.
D - he does not open up easily.
‘uneasy in his mind’
L - adjective
Scrooge feels guilty because he loved his sister, who has died, but he has not shown love to her son, his nephew Fred.
‘like to have given him something’
L - present perfect tense
Scrooge wishes he has treated the carol singing boy differently when he was at his door. He regrets the way he treated him.
‘the passion had taken roots and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall’
‘his sight grew dim’
L - symbolism
The growing tress symbolises Scrooge’s avarice. It casts a shadow blocking out the emotional warmth, love and joy of him.
L - adjective
Scrooge regrets the way he pursued wealth and broke up with Belle as now he has no family and love.
‘overcome with penitence and grief’
L - nouns
Scrooge feels guilty hearing his own words said by the Ghost of the Presence when he knows that Tiny Tim will die in the future.
‘Scrooge listened to this dialogue in horror’
L - noun
Scrooge fears the actions of the charwoman as she robbed a dead body for profit which is ironic because he has robbed people all his life as a money lender.
‘this is a fearful place’
‘I would do it but I have not the power’
Scrooge suspects the lonely man who died might be himself but he is too fearful to uncover the body to learn that he died such a lonely death and no one cared for him.
‘are these the shadows of the things that Will be or are they shadows of things that May be?’
L - modal verbs
If this will be the future of Scrooge, he cannot change it as it is destined to happen.
However, if it might be, Scrooge can still change it if he changes his behaviour.
This is important to scrooge as he fears that he will not have the chance to redeem himself anymore.
‘I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year’
Scrooge has understand the spirit of Christmas time is about goodwill to all man and it shall be done all the year.
‘as good a friend, as good a master and as good a man’
L - tricolon
Emphasises the change in Scrooge that he has become a good citizen and a good employer.
