How Scrooge changes Flashcards

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Topic sentence 1

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Dickens shows change in Scrooge by using negative adjectives to describe him at the beginning and then positive adjectives at the end

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“Squeezing wheezing wrenching gasping clutching covetous old sinner”

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List of negative verbs to describe Scrooge and how horrible he looks and is at the start of the book

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“Delightful smile” “irresistibly pleasant”

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List of positive adjectives to describe how Scrooge has changed from the beginning if the book

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Topic sentence 2

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Dickens shows how scrooges encounter with the ghosts start to change him

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“I was not the man I was”

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Scrooge claims he was not the man he was and that he thinks he has changed from how he was in stave 1

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“Thought and hoped he saw newborn resolutions carried out”

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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

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Dickens message

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Dickens is saying that change is important and that it is never to late to change

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