Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Ebenezer Scrooge
- Frugal and not generous.
- "Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it."
- "What has he done with his money"
- Key hooks
- Frugal
- Gives Bob very low wages, resulting
in poor living conditions for his family
- Sympathy
- Fred and others
mock him at party
- Scrooge is mortified to see his effects
on Bob's family, particularly Tiny Tim
- Miserable
- Described as an 'oyster'. Has a cold hard outer shell
but throughout the novels opens to reveal happiness.
- Refuses to partake in Christmas and rejects invitations
from Fred and requests for a day off for Bob
- Change
- Corrects his wrong-doings from stave 1 in stave
5 in order. Repetition of events with contrasting
reactions & outcomes for effect/juxtaposition
- Gives Bob the day off and a salary raise on Christmas day
- Miserable
- "No warmth could warm, no
wintry weather chill him."
- "To edge his way along the crowded paths of life,
warning all human sympathy to keep its distance,
was what the knowing ones call nuts to scrooge."
- Change/sympathy
- "I will live in the Past, the
Present and the Future!"
- "Not a farthing less. A great many back-
payments are included in it, I assure you."
- "Am I that man who lay upon the bed?"
- "There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol
at my door last night. I should have liked to
have given him something: that's all"