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Stave 1

Description of scrooge:

  • page 57 'soliatry as an oyster' - similie
  • page 57'hard and sharp as flint' - similie

speech to fred:

  • 'Bah.. Humbug!' Page 58 attitude to Xmas and family. Vocabulary.

speech to gentle men about charity and poor: 

  • page 61' If they would rather ide, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.' Vocabulary.
  • Marley's ghost 'mankind was my buisness.' 
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Stave 2

The school:

  • page 75 ' A solitary child.
  • 'At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feable fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.' Imagery and emotive language.

Page 76 Scrooge's regret:

  • 'There was a singing carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something.'

Fezziwig:

  • Page 81 Scrooge's comment 'The happieness he gives is quite as if it cost a fortune.'
  • Page 81 Scrooge's comment 'I should like to be able to say a to my clerk just now.'

Belle:

  • Page 81 'What  idol  has displaced you?' he rejoined.
  • 'A Golden one.' image of idol/symbolism.
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Stave 2 continued

Belle's family:

page 46 Sees Belle's daughter 'When the thoughtt that such another creature ... might have called him father, and been a springtimem in the haggard winter of his life...'

'Remove me!'  scrooge exclaimed. 'I cannot bear it!' Emotive langguage and punctuation.

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Stave 3

  • GOCPRES talks about Tiny Tim's death.'If he be like to die he had better do it and decrese the surplus population.'
  • 'scrooge ... was overcome with penitence and grief.' Verbs and nouns page 94.
  • Page 100 Scooge's visit to Fred's. 'he begged like a boy to be allowed to stay.' - smilie.          'gay and light of heart' page 101- vocabulary/adjectives
  • Pages 102 and 103 the children ignorance  and want. 'Beware of them both' warns the ghost.
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Stave 4 and Stave 5

Stave 4

  • Scrooge page 115. ' i will honour Christmas in my heart' vocab- verb and noun.

stave 5

  • Page 120 'to tiny Tim.. he was a second father
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