A Christmas Carol: Wide margin annotation edition (Annotation Editions)

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Just want to add some ideas, then take a look at these annotated staves against yours and have a re-read of the staves. Dickens sets up Cratchit and Scrooge as opposite figures, Cratchit symbolizing joy despite poverty and hardship and Scrooge symbolizing the grave-like sobriety of greed. This also tells us that S does not want to cook, instead he gets other people to make dinner for him. CGP shall provide a refund for the remaining access period or a physical copy of the title(s) as a replacement.

If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet’s Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot -- say Saint Paul’s Churchyard for instance -- literally to astonish his son’s weak mind. com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-quotes-revision-12938348 Tes paid licence How can I reuse this?We exclude and expressly disclaim all express and implied warranties or conditions not stated in this Agreement (including without limitation, loss of income, loss or corruption of data, business interruption or loss of contracts), so far as such exclusion or disclaimer is permitted under the applicable law. But if you were free to-day, to-morrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl -- you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh everything by Gain : or, choosing her, if for a moment you were false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repentance and regret would surely follow. Scrooge lay in this state until the chime had gone three-quarters more, when he remembered, on a sudden, that the Ghost had warned him of a visitation when the bell tolled one.

S tries to make fun of Marley - he's scared and confused and doesn't like to feel inferior, used to people being afraid of him. I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course ,’ said Scrooge. Scrooge muttered, with an unusual catching in his voice, that it was a pimple; and begged the Ghost to lead him where he would .

As the words were spoken, they passed through the wall, and stood upon an open country road, with fields on either hand. There was nothing they wouldn’t have cleared away, or couldn’t have cleared away, with old Fezziwig looking on. The door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk , who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters . D uses the metaphor of a "contract" to represent B and S's relationship, suggests that Belle feels their relationship more like work and also reflects the change that Scrooge has undergone, becoming more and more obsessed with money and business.

Master Scrooge’s trunk being by this time tied on to the top of the chaise, the children bade the schoolmaster good-bye right willingly; and getting into it, drove gaily down the garden-sweep: the quick wheels dashing the hoar-frost and snow from off the dark leaves of the evergreens like spray. Scrooge expressed himself much obliged, but could not help thinking that a night of unbroken rest would have been more conducive to that end. There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye , which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall . Through these spectral encounters, he is forced to confront the consequences of his past choices and the potential outcomes of his current path through life.M is used to encourage redemption in S, he has didactic purpose, the spark that begins his transformation. growled Scrooge , as if that were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a merry Christmas.