The scaling him with chairs for ladders to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels, hold on tight by his cravat, hug him round his neck , pommel his back, and kick his legs in irrepressible affection. He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle , who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step . 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. This is in contrast to Scrooge's townhouse residence, which is likely to be closer to Cornhill - the more fashionable financial district.

In the main street at the corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count them up: what then . 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.It is enough that by degrees the children and their emotions got out of the parlour, and by one stair at a time, up to the top of the house; where they went to bed, and so subsided. Scrooge went to bed again, and thought, and thought, and thought it over and over, and could make nothing of it. A Christmas Carol – The Complete Text contains the full text of the novel, with helpful annotations to explain characters, themes, context and more!

And then let any man explain to me, if he can, how it happened that Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker , without its undergoing any intermediate process of change -- not a knocker, but Marley’s face. The CGP range for English Literature also includes a matching Text Guide (9781782943099), which contains all the notes and practice you need to really master A Christmas Carol!Termination of the Agreement (howsoever occasioned) shall not affect any accrued rights or liabilities of either party. AUTHORS PURPOSE: Dickens directs this message at the upper classes, who ignored the desperately poor working class and suggest that they should be more kind towards them as there are consequences to this greed. He corroborated everything, remembered everything, enjoyed everything, and underwent the strangest agitation. You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Parliament ; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy .

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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. It held up its chain at arm’s length, as if that were the cause of all its unavailing grief, and flung it heavily upon the ground again. There were more dances, and there were forfeits, and more dances, and there was cake, and there was negus , and there was a great piece of Cold Roast, and there was a great piece of Cold Boiled, and there were mince-pies, and plenty of beer . Scrooge expressed himself much obliged, but could not help thinking that a night of unbroken rest would have been more conducive to that end.

The Spirit dropped beneath it, so that the extinguisher covered its whole form; but though Scrooge pressed it down with all his force, he could not hide the light, which streamed from under it, in an unbroken flood upon the ground. Plus, we've included Knowledge Organiser pages, where all the key info is laid out in one handy place.he doesn't believe in Ghosts and so is trying to come up with an explanation, suggesting that he has eaten something that has messed with his stomach and affected his senses. You may use the Service and any titles for your own personal use, including but not limited to study, classroom teaching, lesson planning or in-school training. Even this, though, when Scrooge looked at it with increasing steadiness, was not its strangest quality. 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.