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1
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This describes that he does not want to let go

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‘he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’

2
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This describes the behaviour of scrooge and what he wants

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‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner’

3
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This describes that he is very lonely

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‘solitary as an oyster’

4
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This describes that he is cold and careless

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‘hard and sharp as flint’

5
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This describes that he is as cold as the cold weather and shows that he has a mean personality

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‘The cold within him froze his old features’

6
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This suggests that scrooge would always be cold even in a warm place

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‘He carried his own low temperature always’

7
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This describes that his room is as cold as he is

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‘he iced his office’

8
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This is a fairytale beginning which suggests that the bad things can turn into the good things

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‘Once upon a time…’

9
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This suggests that scrooge does not like the poor

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‘he might keep an eye on his clerk’

10
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This shows that scrooge is fire is small

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‘Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked
like one coal’.

11
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He can not change his actions

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‘He couldn’t replenish it’

12
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This suggests that he can only use it for himself and no one else

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‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’

13
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A thick mist

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‘The fog came pouring in’

14
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His eyes ……….

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‘His eyes sparkled’

15
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Scrooges words

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‘Bah humbug’

16
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The first words we hear from fred

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‘A merry christmas uncle god save you cried a cheerful voice’

17
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Shows that Fred is light

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‘He was all in a glow’

18
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Fred thinks that christmas will benefit him

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‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’

19
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Scrooge asking about prisons

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‘Are there prisons’

20
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This quote talks about how christmas is not about spending money but it is about a time of joy

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‘We chooses this time because it is a time of all others when want is keenly felt, and abundant rejoices’

21
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What Fred has done him good

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I belive it has done me good and will do me good

22
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What Fred thinks about his christmas humour

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Ill keep my christmas humour to the last

23
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…….nothing

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‘Nothing’

24
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Scrooge says the shocking quote in the book

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If they rather die… they had better do it and decrease the surplus population

25
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Scrooge says its not my …..

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Its not my business

26
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The fog getting thicker

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Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so

27
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How extreme the wether is

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The cold became intense

28
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Talks about how the poor are warming their hands on a great fire

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Had lightened a great fire in a brazier round which a party ragged men and boys were gathered warming their hands and wrinkling their eyes before the blaze in rapture

29
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Scrooge talking about bob having a day off

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‘A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of
December!’

30
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This talks about how happy bob is having one day off every year

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‘The clerk…went down a slide…and then ran home to Camden Town’.