A Chrisrmas Carol Flashcards
Description of Scrooge in stave one
“External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge”
Scrooge in stave 5 feeling happy
“I am as light as a feather, I am a happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.”
The Cratchitts on Christmas day
“Children were dancing on the table and potatoes were knocking out to be peeled”
Bob Cratchitt being grateful for what he has
“Oh, a wonderful pudding”
Description of Fred
“He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge’s, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.”
What does the ghost of Marley say to Scrooge?
“I wear the chaind I forged in life”
Description of the Ghots of Christmas Past
“like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man”
Ghost of Christmas past talking about Fan
“Always a delicate creature, whom a breath might have withered… but she had a large heart!”
The Ghost of Christmas present advocating moral responsibility
“There are some upon this earth of yours… who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived.”
The Ghost of Christmas present frightening Scrooge about Tiny Tim
“If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die”
Fred questioning why he cannot be friends with Scrooge”
“I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends?”
Marley talking about wasting his life
“No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused!”
Description of the Ghost of Christmas yet to come
“It was shrouded in a deep black garment , which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand”
Ghost of Christmas yet to come frightening Scrooge
“Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trembled beneath him”
Description of old clokc tower looking at Scrooge in stave one
“The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping silly down at Scrooge out of a gothic window in the wall…”
