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Enjoy your Christmas Bowl too! Merry Christmas! SimanaitisSays will return on December 26, after a brief Holiday Hiatus. ds A living and moving picture of Scrooge's former self, a young man, came briskly in, accompanied by his fellow-prentice. Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence were, all, my business Marley presents a concept that society was not familiar with at the time. Scrooge is shown, by the use of a list, how wrong his priorities are and how wrong the priorities of society are. He may by trying to prove to the government and other high ranking officials that all of these things are the true business of humanity. At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."

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Whenever I see this illustration, I can’t help but recall “Death comes to the Dinner” in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. Would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give? Is it not enough that you are one of those whose passions made this cap, and force me through whole trains of years to wear it low upon my brow! Scrooge asks the spirit to extinguish his lights however is chastised for doing so as he says light is valuable. This is true for Scrooge. It is not convenient, and it's not fair. If I was to stop half a crown for it, you'd think yourself mightily ill-used, I'll be bound?" I do,’ said Scrooge. `Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.’Let me hear another sound from you,’ said Scrooge, ` and you’ll keep your Christmas by losing your situation! You’re quite a powerful speaker, sir,’ he added, turning to his nephew. `I wonder you don’t go into Parliament.’

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I wear the chain I forged in life,’ replied the Ghost. `I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you? ’ Scrooge's niece by marriage, laughed as heartily as he. And their assembled friends, being not a bit behindhand, roared out lustily. The gathering at Fred's house presents a multitude of different types of family. On the one hand you have Scrooge's true relative but also his wife and many of their friends. This proves to Scrooge that the meaning of family is much more than just your blood relatives but actually about spending time with people who you enjoy spending time with and just having fun together. Words such as 'not behindhand' show clearly that even though they are not related, they have many things in common and that family is about celebrating these similarities. No, nor did he believe it even now. Though he looked the phantom through and through , and saw it standing before him; though he felt the chilling influence of its death-cold eyes ; and marked the very texture of the folded kerchief bound about its head and chin, which wrapper he had not observed before; he was still incredulous, and fought against his senses.

The room and its contents all vanished instantly, and they stood in the city streets upon a snowy Christmas morning. He's a comical old fellow," said Scrooge's nephew, "that's the truth; and not so pleasant as he might be. However, his offences carry their own punishment, and I have nothing to say against him. Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself, always. Here he takes it into his head to dislike us, and he won't come and dine with us. What's the consequence? He don't lose much of a dinner." my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas. I’ll retire to Bedlam. The irony being that Scrooge set the clerk's Salary - is he already starting to realise he is being too mean?

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The way that Scrooge worships money would have been considered as sinful at the time as it is in a way idolising something that is not the holy lord Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change , for anything he chose to put his hand to. So Martha hid herself, and in came little Bob, the father, with at least three feet of comforter, exclusive of the fringe, hanging down before him; and his threadbare clothes darned up and brushed, to look seasonable; and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder. Alas for Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame! Come, then,’ returned the nephew gaily. `What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough.’ At length the hour of shutting up the counting-house arrived. With an ill-will Scrooge, dismounting from his stool, tacitly admitted the fact to the expectant clerk in the Tank, who instantly snuffed his candle out, and put on his hat.The cellar-door flew open with a booming sound , and then he heard the noise much louder, on the floors below; then coming up the stairs; then coming straight towards his door. A set of chapter-by-chapter annotations, ideal for guided reading and/or revision lessons/handouts. As he struggled with the Spirit he was conscious of being exhausted, and overcome by an irresistible drowsiness; and, further, of being in his own bed-room. He had barely time to reel to bed before he sank into a heavy sleep. Key events: it could be argued that at the point when Scrooge sees his name on teh gravestone there is a sense of change in Scrooge however other points in the novel reflect this too Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker's book, went home to bed. He lived in chambers which had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of buildings up a yard. The building was old enough now, and dreary enough; for nobody lived in it but Scrooge, the other rooms being all let out as offices.