Scrooge Flashcards
His response to Christmas
Bah, humbug!
Narrator’s description of Scrooge
Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner
Scrooge tells Fred what should happen to those who wish others a merry Christmas
If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart
Scrooge is a changed man
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me
Scrooge has changed and he is acting like he is under the influence of alcohol
I am as giddy as a drunken man
Scrooges view of the poor people preferring to die
If they had rather die…they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.
A description of Scrooge as a child
A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still
Scrooge describing his change to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
I am not the man I was
Narrator about Scrooges promises
Scrooge was better than his word
Narrator describing Scrooge’s relationship with Tiny Tim
to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father
Narrator telling of people’s views about the new Scrooge
And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well