MUST HAVE QUOTES

Question 1

Cratchitts quotes

Answer 1

• “god bless everyone”= Tiny Tim
• “oh, a wonderful pudding!”
• “but nobody said or thought it was a small pudding for a large family”
• “he tried to warm himself at the candle”
• “dismal little cell”
• “Tiny Tim will not die”
• “I will raise your salary”
• “a good wife”
• “knocked loudly to be let out”
• “I’ll give you Mr Scrooge, the founder of the feast”
• “My little, little child”
• “mrs cratchitt made the gravy… master Peter mashed the potatoes”

Question 2

Marley

Answer 2

“Mankind was my business”
“charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business”
“Spirit goes not forth in life it is condemned to do so after death”
“Moaning as they went”
= depth of suffering
= humanises them
“Hither in restless haste”

Question 3

Dickens

Answer 3

• “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”
• “While there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”
• “For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”
• “smooth white sheet of snow upon the roof… dirtier snow upon the ground”

Question 4

Scrooge

Answer 4

• “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
• “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”
• “as solitary as an oyster”
• “I am as light as a feather”
• “darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it”
• “his heart and soul was with his former self”
• “why do you delight to torture me”
• “I am heartily sorry”
• “he looked so irresistibly pleasant”
• “ Scrooge was better than his word”
• “he became a good friend, as a good master and as a good man”
• “external heat and cold had little influence on him”

Question 5

Ignorance and Want

Answer 5

• “most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”
• “Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish”
• “They are Man’s and they cling to me”

Question 6

Charity men

Answer 6

• “are there no prisons”
• “many cannot go there and would rather die”

Question 7

Regret

Answer 7

• leave me take me! Take me back
• no space of regret can amends for one’s life of opportunity misused
• overcome with pentinence and grief
• may sponge away the writing on the wall
• external heat and cold had little influence on him

Question 8

Redemption

Answer 8

covetous old sinner
INTO
- quite a baby
- quickening his pace
- many back payments
- should be boiled with his own pudding
INTO
- knew how to keep Christmas well
- cold, bleak, biting weather
INTO
- no fog, no mist
- clear, bright
- I’m about to raise your salary

Question 9

Poverty

Answer 9

• poor and destitute
• suffering greatly
• surplus population
  = Malthusian assertion