Christmas carol - redemption
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- Created on: 06-05-19 17:39
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- Redemption
- "...you have yet a CHANCE and HOPE of ESCAPING my fate"
- Marley regrets that he did not change his ways - too late for him to avoid suffering
- Scrooge is lucky - Marley implies most people are already doomed to their fates, but scrooge will get one last chance of redemption
- Acts as a hellish guardian angel
- "a SOLITARY CHILD, NEGLECTED by his friends, is left there still"
- Reader learns that he has been left at his school because his father won't let him come home for xmas
- Reader feels sympathy as they learn about his past
- His past suggests people are not necessarily born bad and even someone like scrooge can have some goodness in them
- "Your lip is TREMBLING and what is that UPON YOUR CHEEK?"
- Sudden change in character - he is crying
- He is reminded of his childhood. He feels pity for his lonely, boyhood self or he could be feeling nostalgic
- Reader sees Scrooge's emotions for the first time - feel sympathetic
- "There was a boy singing... i should like to have given him something: that's all
- Feeling guilty and showing emotion
- Thinking more about his actions as he regrets his treatment of the carol singer in stave one
- The start of the change in Scrooge's behaviour and attitude towards the poor
- "With an INTEREST he had NEVER FELT before" (asking if Tiny Tim will live)
- Seeing Tiny Tim helps Scrooge to feel empathy again
- Reader feels a hope of redemption for Scrooge
- Tiny Tim makes Scrooge start to care about other people
- Ghost of Xmas Present uses Tim to show Scrooge how wrong his beliefs about the "surplus population" are and think about poor people as individuals
- "Scrooge was overcome with PENITENCE and GRIEF"
- Scrooge feels sorrow and regret when he realises how wrong and horrible he has been
- Start to see a change in Scrooge's attitude towards the poor, Starts to accept that people like Tim are his responsibility
- "...you have yet a CHANCE and HOPE of ESCAPING my fate"
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