Key Events

Question 1

What happens in Stave 1

Answer 1

• Scrooge talks to Fred
• Scrooge is visited my Marley, who tells of the ghosts to come

Question 2

What happens in Stave 2

Answer 2

• Scrooge wakes and is visited by the past Ghost
• They go to his school, he sheds a tear and sees Fan
• They visit Fezziwig’s party
• They visit Belle (twice) breakup and new family
• Scrooge tries to extinguish the spirit as he can’t bear any more

Question 3

What happens in Stave 3

Answer 3

• Scrooge accepts the present ghost immediately
• They visit the streets, see cheerfulness and plenty among poverty
• The Cratchits house, they are modest but proud, TT is kind and selfless despite illness
• The isolated places
  - The miners with their families
  - The solitary lighthouse
  - The sailors, separated but still with C spirit
• Fred’s house, they make fun of Scrooge, he is the only one missing out
• Ignorance and Want, wretched and frightful, their innocence stolen by poverty, the Ghost mirrors scrooges words back at him

Question 4

What happens in Stave 4

Answer 4

• This Ghost makes Scrooge feel ‘Solemn Dread’, he reveres him
• Scrooge is keen to learn
• The merchants, they don’t care about the funeral
• Old Joe’s, Scrooge is taken to the worst part of town, ‘Reeked with crime, filth, and misery’
  - His shop is visited by three people, all selling items that
  belonged to Scrooge
• Scrooge listens in horror, he doesn’t realise it is happening to him, but believes it could
• The death bed
• The young couple, Scrooge wants to see emotion about the death, and is shown a happy couple
• Tiny Tim, Scrooge wants to see ‘‘tenderness connected with a death’’ TT has died, and the Cratchits are mourning him, and promise he will be remembered, unlike Scrooge
• The graveyard, Scrooge doesn’t realise he is the dead man, the Spirit reveals that it is and Scrooge breaks down, acknowledging that he will change his ways

Question 5

What happens in Stave 5

Answer 5

• Scrooge wakes, ready to “make amends”, he is full of good intentions
• Scrooge is changed. He becomes a “Second Father” to TT, and is changed in a range of ways
• Ends with a blessing from TT, “ God bless Us, Every One”