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

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But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,’ faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Hot and Cold – Extensive imagery describes Scrooge as cold because of his cold heart; in contrast, his nephew is described as warm because he is merry and loving.

There was nothing they wouldn’t have cleared away, or couldn’t have cleared away, with old Fezziwig looking on.reveals Scrooge's cold heart - he would rather see the poor people die than give them some money to help, he is frigid and selfish. Belle,’ said the husband, turning to his wife with a smile,’ I saw an old friend of yours this afternoon. No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o’clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge .

AUTHORS PURPOSE: Dickens uses the scene to allow the reader to feel sorry for the child 'Scrooge' as we start to understand where his hatred for Christmas has come from. As to measuring her waist in sport, as they did, bold young brood, I couldn’t have done it; I should have expected my arm to have grown round it for a punishment, and never come straight again. The narrator adds that he's focused on this point because it is vital to what follows, as the death of Hamlet’s father is vital to Hamlet.Or would you know,’ pursued the Ghost, ` the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself? If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. In came a fiddler with a music-book, and went up to the lofty desk, and made an orchestra of it, and tuned like fifty stomach-aches.

If this had never been between us,’ said the girl, looking mildly, but with steadiness, upon him;’ tell me, would you seek me out and try to win me now .This is the lesson Marley was unable to learn in his lifetime, and the lesson Scrooge must accept to avoid the same fate. The darkness and the mist had vanished with it, for it was a clear, cold, winter day, with snow upon the ground. Of the many straightforward adaptations of A Christmas Carol, the 1951 version starring Alistair Sim is probably the best, but the novella has also inspired many clever takes on the Dickens classic. The pathetic fallacy of the "feeble" fire creates a miserable atmosphere and adds to the sympathy we feel for Scrooge. The hair was curiously stirred, as if by breath or hot air; and, though the eyes were wide open, they were perfectly motionless.

But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- 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 creatures bound on other journeys. Scrooge knew this, by the smart sound its teeth made, when the jaws were brought together by the bandage. 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. When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark , that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber.Even this, though, when Scrooge looked at it with increasing steadiness, was not its strangest quality. Then she began to drag him, in her childish eagerness, towards the door; and he, nothing loth to go, accompanied her. I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course ,’ said Scrooge. Half a dozen gas-lamps out of the street wouldn’t have lighted the entry too well, so you may suppose that it was pretty dark with Scrooge’s dip. The noun 'idol' shows that Belle believes Scrooge is so enamoured of money that he worships it and has pushed her aside for it.