Stave 1 Part 2 Flashcards
(25 cards)
Hard to see things. (White mist)
‘The fog came pouring in….’
Fred is happy
‘”A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice’
He represents happiness
‘he was all in a glow’
Christmas spirit is inside him.
‘his eyes sparkled’
Scrooge is saying go away.
‘Bah!…Humbug!’
Fred believing Christmas is good for you
‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’
I will always be happy
‘I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last’
Men around a fire
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’
Talking about his clerk robbing him
A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of
December!’
Happy to go home
‘The clerk…went down a slide…and then ran home to Camden Town’.
His sad time eating dinner
Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern’
Telling us Marley’s dead
Marley was dead, to begin with’.
Only person
sole mourner’, ‘sole friend’
Marleys face on the knocker
not a knocker, but Marley’s face’
Likes to be cheap
‘Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it’.
Something about a chain
The chain he drew was clasped around his middle’
Talking about what Marley had around him
‘It was long…made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and
heavy purses wrought in steel’.
Being his partner
‘In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley’
Talking about his life being doomed
Condemned’ ‘Doomed to wander through the world’
Talking about something he forged in life
‘I wear the chain I forged in life’
These were for formed over time
‘I made it link by link’
Talking about the something he doesn’t know about
Would you know the weight and length of the strong coil you bear
yourself?’
He’s working for mankind
Mankind was my business’
The three ghosts
‘You will be haunted by Three Spirits’
