A Christmas Carol
Scrooge/ Change
Material Wealth
Spiritual Versus
Ebenezer Scrooge Ghost of Christmas Past
Responsibility
Page Number
Christmas
The Poor
Bob Cratchit Ghost of Christmas Present
Ghosts
Family
Time
Fred
Fred Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
Jacob Marley Fezziwig
Belle (Intrusive) Narrator
1. “Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck
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out generous fire”
2. “Secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster” 1 X X
3. “The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed
nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, 1 X X X
his thin lips blue.”
4. “Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very
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much smaller”
5. “all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes
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sparkled”
6. “as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the
only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men
and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts
freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were
fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of 2 X X X X X X
creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle,
though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I
believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I
say, God bless it!”
7. “’If they would rather die,’ said Scrooge, ‘They had better do it,
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and decrease the surplus population.’”
8. “A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty fifth
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December”
9. “Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy
tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the 4 X X X X X
rest of the evening with his banker’s book, went home to bed”
10. “I wear the chains I forged in life” 6 X X
11. “Mankind was my business” 7 X X X