How Scrooge changes Flashcards
Topic sentence 1
Dickens shows change in Scrooge by using negative adjectives to describe him at the beginning and then positive adjectives at the end
“Squeezing wheezing wrenching gasping clutching covetous old sinner”
List of negative verbs to describe Scrooge and how horrible he looks and is at the start of the book
“Delightful smile” “irresistibly pleasant”
List of positive adjectives to describe how Scrooge has changed from the beginning if the book
Topic sentence 2
Dickens shows how scrooges encounter with the ghosts start to change him
“I was not the man I was”
Scrooge claims he was not the man he was and that he thinks he has changed from how he was in stave 1
“Thought and hoped he saw newborn resolutions carried out”
Scrooge talks about his newborn resolutions which tells us he now has ideas on what he is going to do to become a better person
Dickens message
Dickens is saying that change is important and that it is never to late to change