A Christmas Carol: Annotation-Friendly Edition

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Key events: Scrooge aludes to his own responsibilty for Bob's situation at the beginning due to the low salary he pays him. Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Then, with a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character, he said, in pity for his former self, "Poor boy! Scrooge begins to feel pity for his former self and immediately begins to show his changing attitude - he says he wished he gave some money to the Carol singer he encountered earlier in the novel.

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They found a cheerful company assembled round a glowing fire Scrooge is shown by the miners that even if all you have is a small fire and not much else, you can still make the best of life and enjoy Christmas. This is shown by words such as cheerful company and glowing fire. The glowing fire infers that they have not got very much fuel for and yet they are still behaving in a cheerful way. This contrasts Scrooge as he also had a small fire but chose not to be merry and grateful for what he has. This scene shows the family sharing the tiny amount of warmth they have. There’s another fellow,’ muttered Scrooge; who overheard him: ` my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family , talking about a merry Christmas. I’ll retire to Bedlam.' . Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action , that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost.

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Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!" However you decide to use this Scrooge character description poster, it's a brilliant tool for your English lessons and will help reinforce children's learning of A Christmas Carol and how to infer character traits from dialogue. Resources similar to this Scrooge character description poster Speak like an Expert Challenge Card: A Christmas Carol— These challenge cards can help your pupils learn to speak like an expert when it comes to the novella. They have to answer questions about the topic without saying filler words such as 'erm', 'I think', 'well', and 'you know'.

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I wish to be left alone,’ said Scrooge . `Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned -- they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there.’You must have been very slow about it, Jacob,’ Scrooge observed, in a business-like manner , though with humility and deference. Well, I am very glad to hear it," said Scrooge s nephew, "because I haven't any great faith in these young housekeepers. What do you Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed,’ cried the phantom, ` not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed . Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused! Yet such was I! Oh! such was I! ’