Stave 3 Flashcards
‘There sat a jolly…
Giant, glorious to see; who bore a glowing torch’
The Ghost of Christmas Present Description:
‘______ breast was bare’
‘open ____’
capacious
hand
‘Girded around its middle was an…
antique scabbard; but no sword was in it, and the ancient sheath was eaten up with rust’
‘Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of ______’
throne
“Tonight if you aught to teach me…
let me profit by it”
“He hoped the people saw him in the church…
because he was a cripple and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see”
“Will you decide…
what men shall live, what men shall die?”
‘There stood a solitary __________’
lighthouse
“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is…
Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is doom”
‘pinched and twisted them…
and pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned devils lurked’
‘Yellow, meagre, ragged..
scowling wolfish but prostate’
Main ideas in Stave 3:
1) The upper class are the cause disarray since they are selfish.
2) Having a good family impacts you positively.
3) Powerful people oppressed others.
