Scrooge Flashcards
S1 - flint
Hard and sharp as flint
S1 - oyster
Solitary as an oyster
S1 - low
He carried his own low temperature around with him
S1 - mourner
His sole executor … his sole friend and sole mourner
s1 - grindstone
Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!
s1 - squeezing
a squeezing, wrenching, grasping scraping, clutching covetous old sinner!
s1 - frosty
A frosty rime was on his head
S1 - prisons/workhouses
‘Are there no prisons?’
‘Are there no workhouses?’
S1 - Bah
‘Bah!’ said Scrooge. ‘Humbug!’
S1 - die
‘If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population’
S1 - business
‘It is not my business’
Link: MARLEY ‘Mankind was my business’
S1 - regret
MARLEY’S GHOST TO SCROOGE
‘No space of regret can make amends for a one life’s opportunity missed’
S2 - lonely
A lonely boy was sat reading near a feeble fire
‘Feeble’ – he has become harder as a person
S2 - solitary
GOCP - ‘A solitary child, neglected by his friends’
S2 - wept
Scrooge sat down upon a form and wept to see his poor forgotten self
S2 - Ali Baba
‘Why it’s Ali Baba!’ Scrooge exclaimed in ecstasy
He has energy so is very happy
S2 - boy
‘There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something … that’s all.’
S2 - clerk
‘I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now!’
S2 - idol
BELLE
‘Another idol has displaced me’
S3 - profit
‘Tonight, if you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it.’
S3 - refuge
‘Have they no refuge or resource?’ cried Scrooge.
GOCPr – ‘Are there no prisons?’
‘Are there no workhouses?’
s4 - ha ha ha
‘to profit us when he was dead! Ha, ha, ha!
They were in debt but because he died it makes them happy
s4 - none
BOB CRATCHIT – ‘I am sure none of us forget poor Tiny Tim’
Scrooge would now be shocked by his death
s4 - honour
past,
‘I will honour Christmas in my heart.’
‘I will live in the Past, the Present and the Future.’
