Christmas Charol Flashcards

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Horrible person

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

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2
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Tight with money

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He was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone

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3
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Hard exterior with good on the inside

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Solitary as an oyster

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4
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Hard but also brittle

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hard and sharp as flint

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5
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He stopped himself

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The cold within him froze his old features

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6
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He was always cold

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He carried his own low temperature always

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7
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He doesn’t use a lot of coal

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he iced his office

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8
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The beginning of a story tale

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Once upon a time

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9
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He has no trust on his clerk

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he might keep an eye on his clerk

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10
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Showing his christmas spirit

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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

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11
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No trust or sharing

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He couldnt replenish it

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12
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Scrooge doesnt trust bob

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Scrooge kept the coal box in his own room

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13
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Fog

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The fog came pouring in…’

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14
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Fred talking to scrooge

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”A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice’

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15
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Talking about fred

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He was all in a glow

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16
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Talking about a face

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His eyes sparkled

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17
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Scrooges line

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Bah! Humbug

18
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He believes its done him good

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

19
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They will keep their humor

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‘I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last’

20
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Prisons

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‘Are there no prisons?’

21
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A time when want is felt

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We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is
keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’

22
Q

Nothing

23
Q

Surplus population

A

‘If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the
surplus population’

24
Q

Hes not interested

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‘It’s not my business’

25
It got dark and gloomy
‘Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so’
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It got really cold
'The cold became intense’
27
The great fire with men and boys
‘Had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture’
28
Accusing bob of stealing
A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of December!’
29
Bob went down a slide
The clerk...went down a slide...and then ran home to Camden Town’.
30
Scrooge had a boring dinner
Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern’
31
Marley is dead
‘Marley was dead, to begin with’.
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Scrooge is sole
sole mourner’, ‘sole friend’
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The door knocker
not a knocker, but Marley’s face’
34
Darkness being cheap
Darkness is cheap and scrooge liked it
35
The chain
The chain he drew was clasped around his middle’
36
Talking about marleys chain
‘It was long...made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses wrought in steel’.
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Jacob marley intorducing himself to scrooge
In life i was your partner, jacob marley
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Doomed to wander
Condemned’ ‘Doomed to wander through the world’
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Talking anout the chain in life
I wear the chain I forged in life’
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Talking about making the chain
I made it link by link’
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Would you know
Would you know the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself?’
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Mankind and business
Mankind was my business