Christmas carol quotes

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STAVE 1
How does dickens present Scrooge as a miserly character?
Cratchit’s fire ‘looked like one coal’
‘He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’
‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner’
‘It was the very thing he liked’
‘No wind that blew was bitterer than he’
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Scrooge’s behaviour to others
‘Keep Christmas in your own way and let me keep it in mine’
‘What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money’
‘Are there no prisons...... the union workhouses... and the poor law’
‘Decrease the surplus population’
I can’t afford to
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Scrooge mirrored by the setting
‘Misanthropic ice’
‘Piercing, searching, biting cold’
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Scrooge and Marley’s ghost
‘I wear the chain I forged in life’
‘Mankind was my business’
Marley’s chain ‘wound about him like a tail’
Marley’s chain had ‘cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses’
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STAVE 2
The ghost of Christmas past
‘A great extinguisher’ - represents Scrooge’s hatred of Christmas and of happiness
‘Bright clear jet of light’ - represents Christmas spirit and happiness
‘Like a child....like a old man’ - excited child but also wise like an old man
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Little fan
‘Scrooge seemed uneasy in his mind’ - he misses her, feels remorse because he knows she would be unhappy to see him behave so cruelly
‘Mournfully shaking his head’ - grieving
‘Home, little fan?’ - happy to see her
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Fezziwig
‘Organ of benevolence’
‘No more work tonight’
‘He has the power to render us happy or unhappy’
‘A positive light appeared to issue from fezziwig’s calves’
‘The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune’
‘Shaking hands with every person
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STAVE 2
Belle
‘An idol has displaced me’
‘A golden one’
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The ghost of Christmas present
‘It’s capacious breaths was bare’
‘An antique scabbard; but with no sword’
‘Scrooge did as he was told’ ‘submissively’
‘Touch my robe’
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Cratchit family dinner
‘His threadbare clothes’
‘A custard-cup without a handle’
‘Nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family’
Tiny Tim is ‘as good as gold’
‘God bless us everyone!’
‘If these shadows remain unaltered by the future the child will die’
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STAVE 3
Fred’s party
‘I am sorry for him’
‘Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself, always’
‘He begged like a boy to be allowed to stay’
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Ignorance and want
‘They are mans’
‘Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish’
‘Have they no refuge or resource?’
‘Are there no prisons?’ Are there no workhouses?’
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STAVE 4
The ghost of Christmas yet to come
‘The phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached’
‘Shrouded in a deep black garment’
‘One outstretched hand’
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STAVE 4
Businessmen
‘Cold isn’t it?’
‘Old Scratch got his own at last’
‘I don’t mind going if a lunch is provided’
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Old joes shop
‘I hope he didn’t die of catching anything’ - only care about themselves
‘Why wasn’t he natural in his life time?’
‘Wicked old screw’
‘The case of this unhappy man might be my own’
‘He frightened everyone away when he was alive to profit us when he was de
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Poor couple
‘We may sleep tonight with light hearts’
‘A kind of serious delight’
‘A happier house for this mans death’
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The Cratchit family mourn for Tiny Tim
‘Ah poor tiny Tim!’
‘Poor Bob’
‘I promised him that I would walk there every Sunday’
‘My little little child’
‘The noisy little cratchits were as still as statues’
‘He broke down all at once’
‘They drew about the fire’
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STAVE 4
Scrooge’s grave
‘It was a worthy place’
‘The growth of vegetation death, not life’
‘I am not the man I was’
‘I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year’
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STAVE 5
‘I will life in the past, the present and the future’
‘I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as a angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man’
Scrooge’s laugh was ‘the father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs’
‘Not the l
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‘I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family’
‘Buy another coal-scuttle’
‘He was a second father’ to Tiny Tim
‘It was always said of him, that he knew how to kept Christmas well’
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STAVE 1
Scrooge’s behaviour to others

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‘Keep Christmas in your own way and let me keep it in mine’
‘What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money’
‘Are there no prisons...... the union workhouses... and the poor law’
‘Decrease the surplus population’
I can’t afford to

Card 3

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STAVE 1
Scrooge mirrored by the setting

Back

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Card 4

Front

STAVE 1
Scrooge and Marley’s ghost

Back

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Card 5

Front

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The ghost of Christmas past

Back

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