Quotes Flashcards
He doesn’t like to let go of money easily
‘he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’
A series of adjectives to describe him
‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!’
A simile to show he is hard headed
‘hard and sharp as flint’
Says how he used to be different
‘The cold within him froze his old features’
He has always been cold hearted
‘He carried his own low temperature always’
Everywhere he goes is cold
- ‘he iced his office’
This is to show there was a different time
‘Once upon a time…’
Watching his clerk
‘‘he might keep an eye on his clerk’
Scrooge is selfish and doesn’t want to use his money for fire
‘Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked
like one coal’.
Scrooge can not redo what he has done
‘He couldn’t replenish it’
Scrooge is selfish and doesn’t want to share his coal
‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’
A simile to show he likes to be isolated
‘solitary as an oyster’
Loads of fog
13.‘The fog came pouring in…’
Fred coming into scene with cheerful voice
14.‘”A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice’
Fred glowing
15.‘he was all in a glow’
Freds eyes standing out
16.‘his eyes sparkled’
Scrooges foul mood in christmas
17.‘Bah!…Humbug!’
Fred believing in christmas doing him good
18.‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’
Last line before he leaves his office
19.‘I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last’
Scrooge being cruel towards the poor
20.‘Are there no prisons?’
When thinking of others how it is their time
21.‘We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’
Black into the distance
22.‘Nothing!’
Scrooge talking about surplussing the population
23.‘If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population’
Talking about how it’s not his business
24.‘It’s not my business’
Fog and darkness becoming more worse
25.‘Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so’
The cold became worse
26.‘The cold became intense’
A big fire which warmed their hands
27.‘Had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture’
Accusing the clerk for stealing from him
28.‘A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of
December!’
The clerk was happy he got a day off
29.‘The clerk…went down a slide…and then ran home to Camden Town’.
Scrooge is very sad eating dinner at a tavern
30.‘Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern
The story saying marley is dead
31.‘Marley was dead, to begin with’.
Scrooge was the only mourner
And they are the same
32.‘sole mourner’, ‘sole friend’
The knocker is marleys face
33.‘not a knocker, but Marley’s face’
Being in the dark is cheap
34.‘Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it’.
The chain was around the middle
35.‘The chain he drew was clasped around his middle’
The things that was on marley when he went to visit scrooge
36.‘It was long…made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses wrought in steel’.
When he was alive he was marleys partner
37.‘In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley’
Wandering through the world forever
38.‘Condemned’ ‘Doomed to wander through the world’
The chain that is created when he was alive
39.‘I wear the chain I forged in life’
Making it link by link
40.‘I made it link by link’
Rhetorical question of the coil bearing scrooge
41.‘Would you know the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself?’
Mankind was marleys buisness
42.‘Mankind was my business’
Scrooge being haunted by three ghosts
43.‘You will be haunted by Three Spirits’
Phantoms filling the air and moaning
44.‘The air was filled with phantoms… moaning as they went’
