A christmas carol quotes and analysis

Frage	Antworten
"If he be like to die, he had better do it and decrease the surplus population" - Scrooge and the ghost of Christmas present, Stave 1 and Stave 3	At the beginning of the novel scrooge says this when the charity came to get money, however the ghost of Christmas present repeats it later on to show scrooge his own bitterness first hand
"if these shadows remain unaltered by the future" - Ghost of Christmas present , Stave 3	The ghost of Christmas present repeats this twice to get across the point to scrooge that if he doesn't change then there is no going back.
"Theres the parrot! Halloa! Hoop! Halloo!" - Scrooge, Stave 2	Scrooge is happy and excited to be remembering his childhood
"tight- fisted hand at the grindstone" - Dickens description of scrooge	Scrooge is very precious and doesn't like spending or giving away money. He doesn't care about his employees and their lives are effected"
"Solitary as an oyster" - Dickens description of scrooge	Scrooge keeps himself to himself and cuts himself off from everyone like a metaphorical shell blocking everyone out.

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