quotes - Christmas carol Flashcards
(7 cards)
weather quotes
“who, as cold as he was, was warmer than scrooge”
“the cold within him froze his old features”
“foul weather didn’t know where to have him”
light/darkness
“he poked the fire and extinguished the last frail spark forever”
“meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened”
social responsability
“decrease the surplus population”
“his wealth is of no use to him. He don’t do any good with it”
poverty
“I’ll drink his health for your sake and the Day’s”-bob cratchit
“god bless us everyone”-tiny tim
“there are many things from which i have derived good, by which i have not profited, dare i say”-fred
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ignorance and wants
“it bought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable.”
“yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish”
“where angles might have sat enthroned, devils lurked; and glared our menacing”
“no pevertion of humanity”
“they are mans”
“have they no refuge…are there no prisons”
the dangers of the pursuit of wealth
“mounring dress”
“the dealings of my trade where but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business”
“if a lunch is provided”
“you are more worthless and less fit to leave than millions like this poor mans child.”
“our contract is an old one, made when we where both poor and content to be so”
the ghost stages from the ghost of Christmas past to the ghost of Christmas yet to come.
the ghost of christmas past “mourning dress”
scrooge questions why the ghost of Christmas present gives the sprinkles of his torch “to a poor one most” to which he replys “because it needs it most”pg 77
“i hope to live to be another man from what i was”scrooge expresses his fear towards ghost of Christmas yet to come.
