A Christmas Carol Summary
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- Created on: 02-04-20 13:57
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- A Christmas Carol
- Main events
- Stave 1
- Scrooge makes Bob Cratchit work in the cold
- Scrooge refuses to give money to the poor
- Scrooge is visited by Marley- he warns him about the ghosts that will come ad visit him
- Stave 2
- Scrooge is visited by the ghost of Christmas past
- Scrooge remembers the joy Fezziwig offered employees, despite the cost
- Taken to 5 Christmases of his past
- Belle breaks off their engagement, saying that greed has corrupted the love he once felt
- Stave 3
- Scrooge is visited by the ghost of Christmas present
- The spirit takes Scrooge to some Christmas gatherings eg. minors
- The ghost takes him to the Cratchits house to see the poverty they live in
- The ghost shows him a pair of starving children; ignorance and want
- Stave 4
- The ghost of Christmas yet to come visits Scrooge
- The ghost is silent and points its finger to where it wants Scrooge to go
- The ghost takes Scrooge to a series of strange places where people are complaining about the dead person
- Scrooge sees his name engraved on a gravestone, he finds out that everyone was complaining about him
- Stave 5
- Scrooge attends Freds Christmas party
- He promises to give money to the poor
- Scrooge sings the praises of Marley and the ghosts
- Gets a boy to buy the biggest turkey and take it to the Cratchits house
- Stave 1
- Dickens' message
- Wanted to show the rich that the working class were struggling and that they should help
- London was full of poverty, crime and pollution
- He was outraged by the living conditions of the working class
- Christmas is a time of happiness
- Key points (context)
- The readers would most likely be the rich, as they were the only ones who could afford books
- Was written with the intention of drawing the readers attention to the plight of England's poor
- Key quotations
- Stave 1
- "To decrease the surplus population"
- "The chain he drew was clasped around his middle"
- "Hard and sharp as flint"
- "A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner"
- Stave 2
- "Another idol has displaced me"
- "A solitary child neglected by his friend is left there still"
- "Father is so much kinder than he used to be"
- Stave 3
- "The boy is ignorance. The girl is want"
- "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"
- "Tell me if Tiny Tim will live"
- Stave 4
- "The spirits of all three will strive within me"
- "Spirit! Hear me, i am not the man i was"
- "Shrouded in deep black garment"
- Stave 5
- "A merry Christmas to everybody!"
- "A great many back payments"
- "I am about to raise your salary
- Stave 1
- Main events
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