Scrooge

Question 1

Miserly man described with many different adjectives. Asynthetic list uses verbs and adjectives to suggest he is an unhappy man

Answer 1

‘Squeezing wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner’

Question 2

Isolated and alienated, simile suggests he’s choosing to live a lonely life and doesn’t want to interact

Answer 2

‘Solitary as an oyster’

Question 3

Another isolation quote but suggests he was left by his friends

Answer 3

‘“A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still”

Question 4

Sympathetic and compassionate, suggests he has changed his ways and is sorry for what he has done

Answer 4

‘I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year’

Question 5

• For the first time, Scrooge expresses regret
• He experiences the sad and lonely feelings he has long repressed. –Relating again to his own younger self, he now remembers the boy who recently tried to sing him a Christmas carol, a boy he dismissed violently.
• Whether his empathy with the boy results from the boy’s solitary status or his poverty, the incident rekindles Scrooge’s instinct for kindness.

Answer 5

“there was a boy singing a christmas carol at my door last night. i should have liked to have given him something: that’s all”

Question 6

Transformed, changed and metamorphosis, this indicates that Scrooge has changed his behaviour

Answer 6

‘I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I’m quite a baby’

Question 7

The rhetorical questions are used to show where Scrooge believes the poor people belong, suggesting that he believes his status suggests that poverty is not directly relevant to him, and that nothing to do with the poor matters

Answer 7

“Are there no prisons?” “And union workhouses?”

Question 8

This shows the horrible way the rich (represented by Scrooge) view the poor. His language is cold and clinical and shows a complete lack of compassion

Answer 8

“If they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”