Year 10 A Christmas Carol Stave 1 Key Quotes Flashcards
1
Q
‘squeezing … old sinner!’
A
‘squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, covetous old sinner!’
2
Q
‘secret … oyster’
A
‘secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster’
3
Q
‘hard and … fire’
A
‘hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire’
4
Q
‘But what did Scrooge … keep it’s distance.’
A
‘But what did Scrooge care? It was the very thing he liked. To edge his way along the crowded path of life, warning all human sympathy to keep it’s distance.’
5
Q
‘Are … prisons?’
A
‘Are there no prisons?’
6
Q
‘If they would … population’
A
‘If they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population’
