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11 Cards in this Set
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Scrooge would like all of the poor people to die. |
"decrease the surplus population."
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Scrooge is scared. The reader can relate to this fear. This shows that Scrooge is human and may be capable of changing his nasty ways. |
"Quite satisfied, he closed his door, and locked himself in; double-locked himself in, which was not his custom. "
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These chains represent Marley's sins. He has sinned many times, which is why his chain his so long. If Marley's chains are that long, imagine how long Scrooge's would be. |
"The chain he drew was clasped about his middle. It was long, and wound about him like a tail"
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Scrooge thinks that he's ill and is having a nightmare. |
"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato."
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Marley is telling Scrooge why he has came. He has came to warn Scrooge that if he doesn't change his nasty and miserable ways he'll have to pay for it in the afterlife, just like Marley. |
"`It is required of every man,’ the Ghost returned, `that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. "
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The Ghost of Christmas Past juxtaposes itself. |
"like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man,"
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Here, we can see Scrooge making a joke on the height of the ghost. Scrooge makes jokes when he's nervous to try and protect his 'hard shell' and not break down. |
"Long Past." |
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A pathetic fallacy that reflects on the ghostly events that are about to occur. |
"it was so dark"
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"Ding dong" is repeated lots of times. This creates suspense for the reader and for Scrooge as they want to know what'll happen next. |
“Ding, dong!”
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Scrooge is a greedy man that doesn't care how other people feel apart from himself. Also from this we can infer that he's tightfisted as he doesn't even want to spend money on himself. |
"Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal."
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This shows Scrooge's disapproval of Christmas and how not jolly Scrooge is. |
"Bah!’ said Scrooge, "Humbug!"
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