After it had passed away, they were ten times merrier than before, from the mere relief of Scrooge the Baleful being done with. Scrooge is saddened to hear this. I know what it is, Fred! There were pears and apples, clustered high in blooming pyramids; there were bunches of grapes, made, in the shopkeepers benevolence to dangle from conspicuous hooks, that peoples mouths might water gratis as they passed; there were piles of filberts, mossy and brown, recalling, in their fragrance, ancient walks among the woods, and pleasant shufflings ankle deep through withered leaves; there were Norfolk Biffins, squat and swarthy, setting off the yellow of the oranges and lemons, and, in the great compactness of their juicy persons, urgently entreating and beseeching to be carried home in paper bags and eaten after dinner. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die., No, no, said Scrooge. Theres such a goose, Martha!. After finally allowing him to leave for the night, Scrooge heads home. Add commas where necessary. Its dark brown curls were long and free; free as its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its cheery voice, its unconstrained demeanour, and its joyful air. Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One. He said that Christmas was a humbug, as I live! cried Scrooges nephew. After a while they played at forfeits; for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. Its dark brown curls were long and free; free as its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its cheery voice, its unconstrained demeanour, and its joyful air. He rejoices to remember a "visit" from the storybook character Ali Baba. That was the cloth. 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. The mention of his name cast a dark shadow on the party, which was not dispelled for full five minutes. Scrooge started back, appalled. 2023 eNotes.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved, "Secret, And Self-contained, And Solitary As An Oyster", https://www.enotes.com/topics/christmas-carol. Alight shone from the window of a hut, and swiftly they advanced towards it. Scrooges nieces sisters, and all the other ladies, expressed the same opinion. Is there a peculiar flavour in what you sprinkle from your torch? asked Scrooge. Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family; indeed, as Mrs Cratchit said with great delight (surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadnt ate it all at last! 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[2], and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources, 21. To Scrooges horror, looking back, he saw the last of the land, a frightful range of rocks, behind them; and his ears were deafened by the thundering of water, as it rolled and roared, and raged among the dreadful caverns it had worn, and fiercely tried to undermine the earth. If you like this, we think you might also be interested in these related quotations. 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. nearly closed, with perhaps two shutters down, or one; but through those gaps such glimpses. Nor was it that the figs were moist and pulpy, or that the French plums blushed in modest tartness from their highly-decorated boxes, or that everything was good to eat and in its Christmas dress; 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, and left their purchases upon the counter, and came running back to fetch them, and committed hundreds of the like mistakes, in the best humour possible; while the Grocer and his people were so frank and fresh that the polished hearts with which they fastened their aprons behind might have been their own, worn outside for general inspection, and for Christmas daws[4]to peck at if they chose. Scrooge was the Ogre of the family. It was his own room. Despite these circumstances, Bob Cratchit represents the opposite qualities of Scrooge including kindness, generosity and the love of his family members. He also tells the men that the men who wish to die should do it and "decrease the population." If you had fallen up against him (as some of them did), on purpose, he would have made a feint of endeavouring to seize you, which would have been an affront to your understanding, and would instantly have sidled off in the direction of the plump sister. Here, again, were shadows on the window-blind of guests assembling; and there a group of handsome girls, all hooded and fur-booted, and all chattering at once, tripped lightly off to some near neighbours house; where, woe upon the single man who saw them enter-artful witches, well they knew it - in a glow! The Cratchits show that when it comes down to it, you don't need money to be happy. Indeed, I think he loses a very good dinner, interrupted Scrooges niece. The mention of his name cast a dark shadow on the party, which was not dispelled for full five minutes. The poulterers shops were still half open, and the fruiterers were radiant in their glory. on which one drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as Mr. Scrooge. 10 May 1851. Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly. The way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker, was an outrage on the credulity of human nature. 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 sextons spade that buried Jacob Marley. Hell be very merry and very happy, I have no doubt!The children drank the toast after her. Its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration. Readers might infer that Scrooge developed self-containment by emotional necessity. Martha, who was a poor apprentice at a milliners, 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. Already a member? To a poor one most., Spirit, said Scrooge, after a moments thought, I wonder you, of all the beings in the many worlds about us, should desire to cramp these peoples opportunities of innocent enjoyment., 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, said Scrooge. If a question does not contain a vocabulary word from the lesson's word list, use one in your answer. Mr Scrooge! said Bob; Ill give you Mr Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast!, The Founder of the Feast indeed! cried Mrs Cratchit, reddening. For they said, it was a shame to quarrel upon Christmas Day. Himself, always. He dont make himself comfortable with it. For they were a musical family, and knew what they were about, when they sung a Glee or Catch[11], I can assure you: especially Topper, who could growl away in the bass like a good one, and never swell the large veins in his forehead, or get red in the face over it. Forgive me if I am wrong. Again the Ghost sped on, above the black and heaving seaon, onuntil, being far away, as he told Scrooge, from any shore, they lighted on a ship. When Scrooges nephew laughed in this way: holding his sides, rolling his head, and twisting his face into the most extravagant contortions: Scrooges niece, by marriage, laughed as heartily as he. Not coming! said Bob, with a sudden declension in his high spirits; for he had been Tims blood horse all the way from church, and had come home rampant. And their assembled friends being not a bit behindhand, roared out lustily. Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing; and, consequently, when the Bell struck One, and no shape appeared, he was taken with a violent fit of trembling. I am afraid I have not. Knocking down the fire-irons, tumbling over the chairs, bumping against the piano, smothering himself among the curtains, wherever she went, there went he. 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. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources, 9. My opinion is, that it was a done thing between him and Scrooges nephew; and that the Ghost of Christmas Present knew it. Slander those who tell it ye! She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. More shame for him, Fred! said Scrooges niece, indignantly. Log in here. He is such a ridiculous fellow!. The Daughters of the Late Colonel: IV, 179. say he will be spared., If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race, returned the Ghost, will find him here. Scrooge is so deeply affected by the vision that he seems to be developing the first stirrings of compassion. A piece of lace or the like worn around or within the top of the bodice. Having them shown to him in this way, he tried to say they were fine children, but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude. But being thoroughly good-natured, and not much caring what they laughed at, so that they laughed at any rate, he encouraged them in their merriment, and passed the bottle joyously. Likewise at the game of How, When, and Where, she was very great, and to the secret joy of Scrooges nephew, beat her sisters hollow: though they were sharp girls too, as could have told you. A Christmas Carol is a novella, or short story, written by Charles Dickens and first published in the Christmas of 1843. Introduce him to me, and Ill cultivate his acquaintance. He looked down on every human being who did not share his own values. 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. "Scrooge was the Ogre of the family." Scrooge is portrayed as a monster, and his family don't like him but feel obligated to toast him. Scrooge! said Bob; Ill give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast!The Founder of the Feast indeed! cried Mrs. Cratchit, reddening. Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs Cratchit since their marriage. Theres such a goose, Martha!. My opinion is, that it was a done thing between him and Scrooges nephew; and that the Ghost of Christmas Present knew it. His wealth is of no use to him. When two men approach Scrooge about donating to charity, he asks them whether there are prisons and workhouses for the poor. Passing through the wall of mud and stone, they found a cheerful company assembled round a glowing fire. Also how she had seen a countess and a lord some days before, and how the lord was much about as tall as Peter; at which Peter pulled up his collars so high that you couldnt have seen his head if you had been there. For, he wished to challenge the Spirit on the moment of its appearance, and did not wish to be taken by surprise, and made nervous. Then up rose Mrs. Cratchit, Cratchits wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence; and she laid the cloth, assisted by Belinda Cratchit, second of her daughters, also brave in ribbons; while Master Peter Cratchit plunged a fork into the saucepan of potatoes, and getting the corners of his monstrous shirt collar (Bobs private property, conferred upon his son and heir in honour of the day) into his mouth, rejoiced to find himself so gallantly attired, and yearned to show his linen in the fashionable Parks. Explicit reference to poverty in the Cratchit family, Scrooge is concerned about the fate of Tiny Tim, Metaphor, Scrooge is essentially the opposite the family, he begged like a boy to be allowed to stay, Scrooge rediscovers his inner child and has enthusiasm again, two children, wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable, List of postmodifying adjectives, vivid image of the horrid children, "This boy is Ignorance. But it had undergone a surprising transformation. Lauren has taught English at the university level and has a master's degree in literature. But soon the steeples called good people all, to church and chapel, and away they came, flocking through the streets in their best clothes, and with their gayest faces. I was only going to say, said Scrooges 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. Id give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope hed have a good appetite for it. As the last stroke ceased to vibrate, he remembered the prediction of old Jacob Marley, and lifting up his eyes, beheld a solemn Phantom, draped and hooded, coming, like a mist along the ground, towards him. He wouldnt take it from me, but may he have it, nevertheless. After tea they had some music. At the beginning of the story, Bob Cratchit is not real to Scrooge as a flesh-and-blood human being. By this time it was getting dark, and snowing pretty heavily; and as Scrooge and the Spirit went along the streets, the brightness of the roaring fires in kitchens, parlours, and all sorts of rooms, was wonderful. The Spirit did not tarry here, but bade Scrooge hold his robe, and passing on above the moor, spedwhither? Scrooge reverently did so. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.. A tremendous family to provide for! muttered Scrooge. This idea taking full possession of his mind, he got up softly and shuffled in his slippers to the door. Study Questions, Activities, and Resources, 136. Is there a peculiar flavour in what you sprinkle from your torch? asked Scrooge. But being thoroughly good-natured, and not much caring what they laughed at, so that they laughed at any rate, he encouraged them in their merriment, and passed the bottle joyously. 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! However, his offences carry their own punishment, and I have nothing to say against him., Im sure he is very rich, Fred, hinted Scrooges niece. (e\^{e}etre) En juillet, je - en France. He sat very close to his fathers side upon his little stool. Complete the following sentences with the FUTURE forms of the verbs in parentheses. Latest answer posted December 03, 2020 at 4:13:31 PM. If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.. Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. The Daughters of the Late Colonel: IX, 184. Hallo! 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. Scrooge promised that he would; and they went on, invisible, as they had been before, into the suburbs of the town. Deeply moved by the love and warmth in the home of his clerk, Scrooge also notices that Bob's voice "was tremulous" when he tells the family about Tiny Tim's visit to the church where he tells his father that he hopes others see him so that they will remember that it was Christ who made beggars walk and blind men see. . Here is a glass of mulled wine ready to our hand at the moment; and I say, Uncle Scrooge! , A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the old man, whatever he is! said Scrooges nephew. Ha, ha, ha!. Then Bob proposed: A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. 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. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycooks next door to each other, with a laundresss next door to that! 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. It was a much greater surprise to Scrooge to recognise it as his own nephews and to find himself in a bright, dry, gleaming room, with the Spirit standing smiling by his side, and looking at that same nephew with approving affability. Pop Goes The Weasel. M.A. A light shone from the window of a hut, and swiftly they advanced towards it. He always knew where the plump sister was. I was only going to say, said Scrooges 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. At every fresh question that was put to him, this nephew burst into a fresh roar of laughter; and was so inexpressibly tickled, that he was obliged to get up off the sofa and stamp. The Daughters of the Late Colonel: V, 180. Oh, no, kind Spirit! Built upon a dismal reef of sunken rocks, some league or so from shore, on which the waters chafed and dashed, the wild year through, there stood a solitary lighthouse. The narrator calls Dickens an Ogre of the Cratchit Family. And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze[9], and coarse rank grass. But, they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time; and when they faded, and looked happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirits torch at parting, Scrooge had his eye upon them, and especially on Tiny Tim, until the last.
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