T - Family / Relationships quotes Flashcards
S1 - ‘friends’
FRED
“I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends?”
“Good afternoon,” said Scrooge. (1.36-37)
S1 - mourner
sole executor … sole friend and sole mourner
Lack of relationship
S1 - sympathy
warning all human sympathy to keep its distance (Scrooge)
S2 - laughed
“You are quite a woman, little Fan!” exclaimed the boy.
She clapped her hands and laughed
S2 - woman
She died a woman,” said the Ghost, “and had, as I think, children. […] Your nephew!”
Scrooge seemed uneasy in his mind; and answered briefly, “Yes.”
S2 - In came
In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. In came the three Miss Fezziwigs, beaming and lovable.
In came the six young followers whose hearts they broke.
The repetition of ‘in came’ shows how it is though everyone at the party was like one big happy family
S4 - excrescence
‘What has he done with his money?’ asked a red-faced gentlemen with a pendulous excrescence on the end of his nose
Even his business partners didn’t care about him
S4 - lay
He lay, in the dark empty house, with not a man, a woman, or a child
The fear of not being remembered in death for Scrooge - one of the strongest fears in the novella
S4 - child
‘My little, little child!’ cried Bob.
Emotional breakdown following Tiny Tim’s death
S5 - wonderful
wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness
S5 - father
to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father.
