Page 3 of 12. When he does, they are transported to the streets on Christmas morning where, despite the gloomy weather, people frolic joyously in the snow as shopkeepers pass out delicious food. And I no more believe Topper was really blind than I believe he had eyes in his boots. You know he is, Robert! A strange voice tells him to enter, and when he does, he sees his room has been decked out with Christmas decorations and a feast. How it bared its breadth of breast, and opened its capacious palm, and on, floated outpouring, with a generous hand, its bright and harmless mirth on everything within its reach! Despite how badly Scrooge treats his nephew, Fred does not hold it against himhe feels sorry for him. a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! After tea, they had some music. The contrast is so silly that it's amusing. The Ghost transports Scrooge to the modest house of Bob Cratchit. "I wear the chain I forged in life. She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. When this strain of music sounded, all the things that Ghost had shown him came upon his mind; he softened more and more; and thought that if he could have listened to it often, years ago, he might have cultivated the kindnesses of life for his own happiness with his own hands, without resorting to the sexton's spade that buried Jacob Marley. I think Scrooge will likely change his ways because he seems so moved and scared about what he has seen. ch. He asks the Ghost if Tim will live. . Mrs Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped. Sparklet Chapter Summaries Summary & Analysis Stave One: Marley's Ghost Stave Two: The First of the Three Spirits Culinary aspects of Dickens' tale have already appeared here at SimanaitisSays in "Christmas Meals Galore." They are Man's, said the Spirit, looking down upon them. Martha, who was a poor apprentice at a milliner's, then told them what kind of work she had to do, and how many hours she worked at a stretch, and how she meant to lie abed to-morrow morning for a good long rest; to-morrow being a holiday she passed at home. tabbyjennings Plus. He is prepared for the ghost to take any shape. Scrooge is a mean man because we can see this through the escalation of the story. Scrooge sees a table prepared for the Christmas meal. All smiles and compliments, Scrooge tells the boy to go buy the prize turkey from the poultry shop, planning to send it to the Cratchits. That was the cloth. dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence; (Bobs private property, conferred upon his son and heir in honour of the day), they had smelt the goose, and known it for their own; and basking in luxurious thoughts of sage and onion, `Wed a deal of work to finish up last night, replied the girl, and had to clear away this morning, mother., `Well. `It ends to-night, `It might be a claw, for the flesh there is upon it,. This is reminiscent of his childhood, when he was always escaping into fictional worlds. What then? Sometimes his comments express social criticism, sometimes they are satirical, and sometimes they are just funny. It was succeeded by a breathless pause, as Mrs. Cratchit, looking slowly all along the carving-knife, prepared to plunge it in the breast; but when she did, and when the long expected gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah!. When Scrooge asks if the children have no refuge, the Ghost answers with Scrooge's previous words"'Are there no prisons? The sky was gloomy, and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles descended in a shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear hearts' content. Are there no workhouses?'" List each character in the story and the relationship with Scrooge. Down in the west the setting sun had left a streak of fiery red, which glared upon the desolation for an instant, like a sullen eye, and frowning lower, lower, lower yet, was lost in the thick gloom of darkest night. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. It was the first of their proceedings which had no heartiness in it. The crisp leaves of holly, mistletoe, and ivy reflected back the light, as if so many little mirrors had been scattered there; and such a mighty blaze went roaring up the chimney, as that dull petrification of a hearth had never known in Scrooges time, or Marleys, or for many and many a winter season gone, Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam. But now, the plates being changed by Miss Belinda, Mrs. Cratchit left the room alonetoo nervous to bear witnessesto take the pudding up and bring it in. When the player is called back into the room, the player must guess what the object or thing is by asking questions that start with how, when, or where. Note that there are different variations of the game and that it was played differently depending on things like age, gender, location, etc. Apart from its sacred meaning, it is a time for goodness and charity. A moor or moorland is an expanse of uncultivated land that is not suitable for agriculture. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? "Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through their heart." This quote shows us the readers, that Scrooge is a mean man, also it shows us how much The walls and ceiling were so hung with living green, that it looked a perfect grove; from every part of which bright gleaming berries glistened. It was a remarkable quality of the Ghost (which Scrooge had observed at the baker's), that notwithstanding his gigantic size, he could accommodate himself to any place with ease; and that he stood beneath a low roof quite as gracefully, and like a supernatural creature, as it was possible he could have done in any lofty hall. Grace_Jakobs. Alas for Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame! Id give him a piece of my mind to feast upon. Joining their horny hands over the rough table at which they sat, they wished each other Merry Christmas in their can of grog; and one of them: the elder, too, with his face all damaged and scarred with hard weather, as the figure-head of an old ship might be: struck up a sturdy song that was like a Gale in itself. At last the dishes were set on, and grace was said. Everybody else said the same, and they must be allowed to have been competent judges, because they had just had dinner; and, with the dessert upon the table, were clustered round the fire, by lamplight. Sit ye down before the fire, my dear, and have a warm, Lord bless ye!, No, no! There's such a goose, Martha!. It is really in this Stave that Dickens brings to life the Christmas that we all know and love today . But if you had judged from the numbers of people on their way to friendly gatherings, you might have thought that no one was at home to give them welcome when they got there, instead of every house expecting company, and piling up its fires half-chimney high. Oh, no, kind Spirit! And every man on board, waking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for another on that day than on any day in the year; and had shared to some extent in its festivities; and had remembered those he cared for at a distance, and had known that they delighted to remember him. 4.7. The Spirit did not tarry here, but bade Scrooge hold his robe, and passing on above the moor, sped whither? Which literary element is found in this passage? pg. I was only going to say, said Scrooge's nephew, that the consequence of his taking a dislike to us, and not making merry with us, is, as I think, that he loses some pleasant moments, which could do him no harm. but the customers were all so hurried and so eager in the hopeful promise of the day, that they tumbled up against each other at the door, crashing their wicker baskets wildly. What is Scrooge most likely to understand after witnessing the Cratchit family's Christmas? Execrable is an adjective used to describe something that is awful or very unpleasant. What do the children hiding under the Spirit's robes most likely symbolize? The walls and ceiling were so hung with living green, that it looked a perfect grove; from every part of which, bright gleaming berries glistened. What has ever got your precious father, then? said Mrs. Cratchit. Scrooge! said Bob; Ill give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast!, The Founder of the Feast indeed! cried Mrs. Cratchit, reddening. You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day, often the only day on which they can be said to dine at all, `You seek to close these places on the Seventh Day., `There are some upon this earth of yours, returned the Spirit, who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. In time the bells ceased, and the bakers were shut up; and yet there was a genial shadowing forth of all these dinners and the progress of their cooking, in the thawed blotch of wet above each baker's oven; where the pavement smoked as if its stones were cooking too. What element in society is the author criticizing through the voice of the Spirit? A Christmas Carol Analysis - Stave Two - The Ghost of Christmas Past A Christmas . Explain Ignorance and Want, who appear in stave 3 of A Christmas Carol. And how did little Tim behave? asked Mrs. Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart's content. I am afraid I have not. I went forth last night on compulsion, and I learnt a lesson which is working now. Spirit! Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.. , Scrooge had his eye upon them, and especially on Tiny Tim, until the last. Furthermore, Topper inappropriately pretends not to know who she is even after he has caught her. But it had undergone a surprising transformation. Five minutes, ten minutes, a quarter of an hour went by, yet nothing came. Nobody knows it better than you do, poor fellow!, My dear, was Bob's mild answer, Christmas Day., Ill drink his health for your sake and the Day's, said Mrs. Cratchit, not for his. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. Dickens characterizes Freds deep kindness and caring for his uncle in this way. But he raised them speedily on hearing his own name. It was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sound, or that the twine and roller parted company so briskly, or that the canisters were rattled up and down like juggling tricks, or even that the blended scents of tea and coffee were so grateful to the nose, or even that the raisins were so plentiful and rare, the almonds so extremely white, the sticks of cinnamon so long and straight, the other spices so delicious, the candied fruits so caked and spotted with molten sugar as to make the coldest lookers-on feel faint and subsequently bilious. To any kindly given. He was not the dogged Scrooge he had been; and though its eyes were clear and kind, he did not like to meet them. I am sorry for him; I couldn't be angry with him if I tried. In Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol, The Ghost of Christmas Present takes Ebenezer Scrooge to witness the family of his clerk, Bob Cratchit. Recent flashcard sets. Thus, Dickens creates a kind of bittersweet moment: the reader can see that Scrooge is capable of participating in Christmas cheer, but he is still isolated. Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him by his side, and dreaded that he might be taken from him. And it was a very uncommon kind of torch, for once or twice, when there were angry words between some dinner-carriers who had jostled each other, he shed a few drops of water on them from it, and their good-humour was restored directly. The Ghost of Christmas Present greets Scrooge from on top of a pile of luxurious Christmas fare. He wouldnt catch anybody else. He never finishes what he begins to say! Where Written: Manchester and London. His active little crutch was heard upon the floor, and back came Tiny Tim before another word was spoken, escorted by his brother and sister to his stool before the fire; and while Bob, turning up his cuffsas if, poor fellow, they were capable of being made more shabbycompounded some hot mixture in a jug with gin and lemons, and stirred it round and round and put it on the hob to simmer; Master Peter and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits went to fetch the goose, with which they soon returned in high procession. he tried to say they were fine children, but the words choked themselves, most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased, `Are there no prisons. said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. He tells him to beware of them, especially the boy, on whose brow is written doom. Read the Study Guide for A Christmas Carol, Have a Capitalist Christmas: The Critique of Christmas Time in "A Christmas Carol", A Secular Christmas: Examining Religion in Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Perceiving the Need for Social Change in "A Christmas Carol", View the lesson plan for A Christmas Carol, Stave III: The Second Of The Three Spirits, View Wikipedia Entries for A Christmas Carol. He doesn't believe in all of the good cheer and charity that the season promotes, and he makes sure everyone knows it. There was first a game at blind-man's buff. Have you had many brothers, Spirit?. She often cried out that it wasn't fair; and it really was not. In easy state upon this couch, there sat a jolly giant, glorious to see; who bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty's horn, and held it up, high up, to shed its light on Scrooge, as he came peeping round the door. oh the Grocers. 50 terms. As good as gold, said Bob, and better. 10 terms. He is such a ridiculous fellow!. Full Title: A Christmas Carol. But they know me. For example, Scrooge is taught the precepts of aiding the sick and poor by giving them greater hope and cheer. Dickens introduces the theme that charity takes many forms; abundance does not necessarily mean monetary abundance, but rather an abundance of care and compassion. A Christmas Carol: Stave 3 Plot Summary Annotation Sheet 5.0 (1 review) A Christmas Carol: Stave 2 Plot Summary Annotation Sheet A Christmas Carol: Stave 4 Plot Summary Annotation Sheet A Christmas Carol: Stave 5 Plot Summary Annotation Sheet A Christmas Carol Lesson 7: The Ghost of Christmas Present - Stave Three 5.0 (3 reviews) Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly, The house fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, The sky was gloomy, and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles descended in shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear hearts content. Another foreshadowed element is the "Doom" written across the Ignorant boy's brow. For his pretending not to know her; his pretending that it was necessary to touch her head-dress, and further to assure himself of her identity by pressing a certain ring upon her finger, and a certain chain about her neck; was vile, monstrous. I am sure he loses pleasanter companions than he can find in his own thoughts, either in his mouldy old office or his dusty chambers. Suppose it should not be done enough. Spirit, said Scrooge submissively, conduct me where you will. he could accommodate himself to any place with ease; his own kind, generous, hearty nature, and his sympathy, Think of that. It ends to-night., To-night at midnight. 7 clothing SPAN. Well! But it had undergone a surprising transformation. A 'change is also, coloquially, a money changer's o ce, which is probably why Scrooge is typically pictured Why, bless your heart alive, my dear, how late you are! said Mrs. Cratchit, kissing her a dozen times, and taking off her shawl and bonnet for her with officious zeal. Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs. Cratchit since their marriage. After a while, he sees a light come from the adjacent room. Admiration was the universal sentiment, though some objected that the reply to Is it a bear? ought to have been Yes; inasmuch as an answer in the negative was sufficient to have diverted their thoughts from Mr. Scrooge, supposing they had ever had any tendency that way. Someone comes by to try to carol and Scrooge almost hits him in the face with a ruler. There were great, round, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence. Love trumps poverty in Dickens's sentimental portrait of the Cratchits, but he adds a dark note at the end when he reveals Tiny Tim will die unless the future is changed. Bless those women; they never do anything by halves. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Scrooge promised that he would; and they went on, invisible, as they had been before, into the suburbs of the town. There, all the children of the house were running out into the snow to meet their married sisters, brothers, cousins, uncles, aunts, and be the first to greet them. It was a great surprise to Scrooge, while listening to the moaning of the wind, and thinking what a solemn thing it was to move on through the lonely darkness over an unknown abyss, whose depths were secrets as profound as Death: it was a great surprise to Scrooge, while thus engaged, to hear a hearty laugh. There was nothing of high mark in this. Scrooge's niece played well upon the harp; and played among other tunes a simple little air (a mere nothing: you might learn to whistle it in two minutes) which had been familiar to the child who fetched Scrooge from the boarding-school, as he had been reminded by the Ghost of Christmas Past.

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