Stave 1 Flashcards
1 - Simile highlighting that Marley is dead.
“Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.”
2 - Scrooge is a selfish and mean employer.
“A tight-fisted hand at the grindstone.”
3 - Simile used to show that Scrooge prefers his loneliness and is cut off from society. The ghosts break his hard shell to reveal his pearl of goodness.
“Solitary as an oyster.”
4 - Gives the impression that Bob Cratchit feels trapped and it’s a horrible working environment.
“Dismal little cell.”
5 - Scrooge
“Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller.”
6 - Merry
“Merry Christmas Uncle! God Save you!”
7 - Scrooge thinks that poor people are lazy.
“I can’t afford to make idle people merry.”
8 - If
“If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.”
9 - Scrooge resents giving Bob Cratchit Christmas Day off.
“A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of December.”
10 - Not
“Not a knocker, but Marley’s face”
11 - Even alone, Scrooge neglects to spend money.
“Feeble fire.”
12 - Scrooge is in denial about Marley’s ghost and is trying to make a joke about the situation.
“There’s more of gravy than of grave about you.”
13 - Marley’s chains symbolise greed.
“I wear the chains I forged in life.”
14 - Mankind
“Mankind was my business.”
15 - You
“You have yet the chance and hope of escaping my fate.”
