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Flashback to the schoolhouse
The ghost of the past took him back and showed him when he was younger at the schoolhouse. "The schoolhouse is not deserted," said the Ghost. "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still." Scrooge said he knew it. And he sobbed." (Dickens 31) - Direct Characterization. -
Flashback-Belle
Scrooge goes with Christmas past and sees his old fiance Belle."Your own feeling tells you that you were not what you are," she returned. " I am. That which promised happiness when we were one in heart, is fraught with misery now that we are two. How often and how keenly I have thought of this, I will not say. It is enough that I have thought of it, and can release you...she left him and they parted."(Dickens 38)- Indirect effect on others. -
Mrs Cratchit speaks her mind
Mrs. Cratchet doesnt like scrooge very much and gives a piece of her mind. "I wish I had him here. I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon...''My dear,' said Bob, `the children; Christmas Day.' 'It should be Christmas Day, I am sure,' said she, 'on which one drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as Mr. Scrooge. You know he is, Robert. Nobody knows it better than you do, poor fellow.'" ( Dickens 52) Indirect effect on others. -
People on the street avoid Scrooge.
No one stops him in the street to talk to him and no one looks at him because of his reputation of unpleasantness. "Nobody ever stopped him on the street4 to say with gladsome looks, "my dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?" No beggers... no children...no man or women...even a blind man's dogs appear to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails...." ( Dickens 12).-Indeiret effect on others. -
Marley Comes to Visit
Marley comes to warn Scrooge. "At this the spirit raised a frightful cry and shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling noise, that Scrooge held on tight to his chair, to his chair, to save himself from falling in a swoon. But how much greater was his horror, when the phantom taking off its bandage round its head, as if it were too warm to wear in-doors, its lower jaw dropped down upon its breast! Scrooge fell upon his knees, and clasped his hands before his face"(Dickens 22). -Action -
Scrooge has a change in heart
Scrooge has had a big revelation and has a big change in heart, and now he is reliving his life focused on others. "'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world. Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo'" (Dickens 76). ~ID- Words~ -
Scrooge gives a pay raise to Bob in an act of kindness
Scrooge is starting to show he really has changed and one of the ways he did was by giving Bob a pay raise in the quote below. "A merrier Christmas, Bob, my fellow, than I have given you, for many a year! I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss you affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob! Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!'" (Dickens 80). ~ID- Action~ -
Tiny Tim's Death
Scrooge travels with the Ghost of Christmas Future and sees Tiny Tim's mournful death. "'No, no,' said Scrooge. 'Oh, no, kind Spirit. 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. What then. If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. 'Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief."(Dickens 52) ~ID- Words~ -
How people react to Scrooge's death
Ghost of the future shows Scrooge how people react to his death. "'It's likely to be a very cheap funeral,' said the same speaker; for upon my life I don't know of anybody to go to it. Suppose we make up a party and volunteer?' 'I don't mind going if lunch is provided,'...Scrooge was at first inclined to be surprised that the Spirit should attach importance to conversations apparently so trivial... he set himself to consider what it was likely to be"(Dickens 63). ~ID- Thoughts~ -
Scrooge sees his grave.
Scrooge travels to the future with the ghost of Christmas future and sees his grave. Something changes inside him forever. "The spirit was immovable as ever. Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went, and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, EBENEZER SCROOGE." ( Dickens 72) -Indirect looks.
