☆ Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
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“They were not a ____ family but they were ____, _______ and pleased with one ____”
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“They were not a happy family but they were happy, grateful and pleased with one another”
2
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“I ____ to ____ him the ___ ____ every year”
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“I mean to give him the same chance every year”
3
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“Can’t _____ to make _____ people merry”
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“Can’t afford to make idle people merry”
4
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“Solitary ____ neglected by his ___”
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“Solitary child neglected by his friends”
5
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Plan for family
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- Cratchits presented as the ideal family
“ They were not a handsome family but they were happy, grateful, and pleased with one another”
“Merry Xmas to us all my dears. God bless us which all the family re echoed” - Scrooges lack of family leads to his loneliness and contributes to his misery
“Solitary child neglected by his friends”
“Solitary as an oyster”
“Good afternoon”
“Hard and sharp as flint” - Fred used to show the endless love of family
“I mean to give him the same chance every year”
“Mercy he didn’t shake his arm off” - Scrooges redemption shown through his embrace of family
“To TT who did not die he was a second father”
“Will you let me in Fred”
“I will live in past present future…”
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7
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Plan for kindness + generosity
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- Fezziwig used as a dramatic vehicle to demonstrate to Scrooge the kindness and generosity of an employer
“Happiness he gives quite as great as if it costs a fortune”
“I would like to say a word or two to my clerk now” - Scrooges rejects kindness and generosity which feeds into his misanthropic and miserable character
“Surplus population”
“Make idle people merry”
“Good afternoon”
“Clerks fire was so very much smaller” - Cratchits are used to show the importance of kindness and generosity
“Tell me if TT will live”
“To TT who did not die he was a second father” - Kindness and generosity brings joy
“A many backpayments”
“Golden sunlight heavenly sky”
“I am as merry as a schoolboy”
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Plan for impact of ghosts on Scrooge
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- Marley’s ghost kickstarts his transformation as he scares him into self reflection
“I wear the chains I forged in life”
“Mankind was my business” - Ghost of Xmas past forces Scrooge to feel regretful as he demonstrates his past
“Belle”
“Why do you delight to torture me”
“Fezziwig” - Ghost of Xmas present strikes fear in Scrooge as he shows him the current and likely consequences of his covetousness
“Tell me if TT will live”
“Yellow meagre wolfish” - Through the visions of the ghosts he changes
“I will live in past present and the future…”
“A many backpayments are inc”
“Light as a feather”
“To TT he was a second father”