Spirit, said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, tell me if Tiny Tim will live., I see a vacant seat, replied the Ghost, in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. This girl is Want. Then Bob proposed: A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. Scrooge! said Bob; Ill give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast!, The Founder of the Feast indeed! cried Mrs. Cratchit, reddening. 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. These 20+ slides will help introduce your students to Charles Dickens' novel, A Christmas Carol. Passing through the wall of mud and stone, they found a cheerful company assembled round a glowing fire. Note that Scrooges room has changed from dark and dreary to cheery and festive. Why, where's our Martha? cried Bob Cratchit, looking round. As Scrooge's room is described in this paragraph, what does it seem to symbolize? To Scrooge's 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. Playing at forfeits thus means that the group was playing parlor games in which there were penalties for losing. I am afraid I have not. Scrooge promised that he would; and they went on, invisible, as they had been before, into the suburbs of the town. They were a boy and girl. It ends to-night., To-night at midnight. He obeyed. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die. Why does Fred, Scrooge's nephew, feel sorry for him? Oh! Passing through the wall of mud and stone, they found, `He said that Christmas was a humbug, as I live. cried Scrooges nephew. A moor or moorland is an expanse of uncultivated land that is not suitable for agriculture. Who suffers by his ill whims. 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. A Christmas Carol Full Text - Stave Three - Owl Eyes Stave Three The Second of the Three Spirits A WAKING 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. I have no patience with him, observed Scrooge's niece. Explain Ignorance and Want, who appear in stave 3 of A Christmas Carol. Reading of the text: 0:00 - 04:19Analysis of key quotations: 04:19 - 13:39Reading, discussion and annotation of Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'. Are there no prisons? said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. 0:00 / 10:38 A Christmas Carol: Stave Three Summary - DystopiaJunkie GCSE English Revision Hints and Tips DystopiaJunkie 10.9K subscribers Subscribe 535 16K views 2 years ago All Videos Welcome. 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. Bob Cratchit told them how he had a situation in his eye for Master Peter, which would bring in, if obtained, full five-and-sixpence weekly. Which it certainly was. Ha, ha! laughed Scrooge's nephew. But even here, two men who watched the light had made a fire, that through the loophole in the thick stone wall shed out a ray of brightness on the awful sea. He always knew where the plump sister was. As the author describes Christmas morning in several paragraphs that follow, what are the people of London not doing? Bob Cratchit applauds from his cell and Scrooge threatens to fire him if he makes another sound. Stop! The way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker was an outrage on the credulity of human nature. 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. He felt that he was restored to consciousness in the right nick of time, for the especial purpose of holding a conference with the second messenger despatched to him through Jacob Marley's intervention. 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. 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. 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. ch. Brawn, also known as head cheese, is a type of cold cut that is usually made of jellied pork. She often cried out that it wasnt fair; and it really was not. What do the children hiding under the Spirit's robes most likely symbolize? Scrooge's niece was not one of the blind-man's buff party, but was made comfortable with a large chair and a footstool, in a snug corner, where the Ghost and Scrooge were close behind her. Despite how badly Scrooge treats his nephew, Fred does not hold it against himhe feels sorry for him. The brisk fire of questioning to which he was exposed elicited from him that he was thinking of an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets, and wasn't made a show of, and wasn't led by anybody, and didn't live in a menagerie, and was never killed in a market, and was not a horse, or an ass, or a cow, or a bull, or a tiger, or a dog, or a pig, or a cat, or a bear. What do you say, Topper?. Everybody had something to say about it, but nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family. Stave 2: The First of the Three Spirits. Long life to him! He sat very close to his father's side, upon his little stool. `Are there no workhouses., Scrooge encounters the second of the three Spirits: the enormous, jolly, yet sternly blunt Ghost. To sea. 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. sprinkled incense on their dinners from his torch. This paragraph and the one that follows describe the evening of Christmas Day. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? They are always in earnest. I wish I had him here. oh, the Grocers'! Suppose it should break in turning out! Open Document. There was no doubt about that. If you should happen, by any unlikely chance, to know a man more blest in a laugh than Scrooge's nephew, all I can say is, I should like to know him too. And your brother, Tiny Tim; and Martha warn't as late last Christmas Day by half an hour?. Oh God! After a while, he sees a light come from the adjacent room. There were ruddy, brown-faced. It is really in this Stave that Dickens brings to life the Christmas that we all know and love today . I am sorry for him; I couldnt be angry with him if I tried. It was a much greater surprise to Scrooge to recognise it as his own nephew's, 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! But it had undergone a surprising transformation. Knocking down the fire-irons, tumbling over the chairs, bumping up against the piano, smothering himself among the curtains, wherever she went, there went he. he was ready for a good broad field of strange appearances, and that nothing between a baby and rhinoceros would have astonished him very much. Scrooge bent before the Ghost's rebuke, and trembling cast his eyes upon the ground. I made it link by link and yard by yard' (stave 2) - the chains symbolises his guilt and imprisonment - foreshadows what could happen to Scrooge if he does not change 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. 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, clashing 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 to peck at if they chose. It was a game called Yes and No, where Scrooge's nephew had to think of something, and the rest must find out what; he only answering to their questions Yes or No as the case was. After tea, they had some music. Hurrah! A Christmas Carol Stave 1. He may rail at Christmas till he dies, but he can't help thinking better of itI defy himif he finds me going there, in good temper, year after year, and saying, Uncle Scrooge, how are you? He hasn't the satisfaction of thinkingha, ha, ha!that he is ever going to benefit Us with it.. I am very glad to hear it, said Scrooge's nephew, because I haven't any great faith in these young housekeepers. Note that the second ghost carries a torch that resembles Plentys horn, or the cornucopia, therefore symbolizing abundance. Before delivering Scrooge to his nephew's house, why would the Spirit take Scrooge to the old miner's home, the lighthouse, and the ship at sea? And at the same time there emerged from scores of bye streets, lanes, and nameless turnings, innumerable people, carrying their dinners to the bakers' shops. Stave 1- Greed The main theme in stave 1 of A Christmas Carol is greed. He believed it too!. Scrooge may be guilty of being greedy, grumpy, and uncharitable, but not every person who preaches good cheer is automatically righteous, selfless, and kind. His wealth is of no use to him. Five minutes, ten minutes, a quarter of an hour went by, yet nothing came. We have seen little attention paid to the religious ceremony of Christmas. Any Cratchit would have blushed to hint at such a thing. A great deal of steam! "Desert" in context means "deserted" or uninhabited. This garment hung so loosely on the figure, that its capacious breast was bare, as if disdaining to be warded or concealed by any artifice. A Christmas Carol Annotations. He pays for the boy's time, the turkey, and even cab fare for him to haul the thing out to their house. 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. 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. pg. Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course: and in truth it was something very like it in that house. The cornucopia symbolizes a successful harvest that brings with it an abundance of food, especially fruits, vegetables, and flowers. Textbook Questions. GCSE English Literature A Christmas Carol learning resources for adults, children, parents and teachers. That was the cloth. There are some upon this earth of ours, 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. 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. You know he is, Robert! Scrooge then turns on the clerk and grudgingly gives him Christmas Day off with half payor as he calls it, the one day a year when the clerk is allowed to rob him. A merry Christmas and a happy New Year!hell be very merry and very happy, I have no doubt!. Look here.. The Ghost tells Scrooge they are named Ignorance and Want. 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. nearly closed, with perhaps two shutters down, or one; but through those gaps such glimpses! The Ghost also reveals two allegorical children hidden in his robes: Ignorance and Want. The fact that Scrooge enter[s] timidly shows that he has been humbled by his meetings with the ghosts and the threat of what will come if he does not change his ways. A Christmas Carol Stave 3 and 4 Questions. Bob comes home from church with their youngest child, 'Tiny' Tim, who is disabled and walks with a crutch. Its feet, observable beneath the ample folds of the garment, were also bare; and on its head it wore no other covering than a holly wreath set here and there with shining icicles. Not coming! said Bob, with a sudden declension in his high spirits; for he had been Tim's blood-horse all the way from church, and had come home rampant. I made it link by link, and yard by yard;. It has been done in your name, or at least in that of your family, said Scrooge. 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. But it had undergone a surprising transformation. Id give him a piece of my mind to feast upon. It is usually frosted, ornamented, and contains a voting bean or coin that is used to decide the king or queen of the feast. A Christmas Carol Analysis - Stave Three - Ignorance and Want Mrs Cogger's Literature Revision 1.71K subscribers Subscribe 70 Share Save 4K views 2 years ago A Christmas Carol Reading of. When Scrooge asks, the Ghost informs him that, unless the future is altered, Tiny Tim will die. A place where Miners live, who labour in the bowels of the earth, returned the Spirit. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility. For they were a musical family, and knew what they were about when they sung a Glee or Catch, 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. Fred responds that though it hasn't brought him any profit, Christmas has done him good. The Cratchits may not have the money (thanks to Mr. Scrooge) for an elaborate feast in beautiful glassware, but they are celebrating together nonetheless. Contents 1 Introduction 2 Stave 1: Marley's Ghost 3 Stave 2: The First of the Three Spirits 4 Stave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits 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. Likewise at the game of How, When, and Where, she was very great, and to the secret joy of Scrooge's nephew, beat her sisters hollow: though they were sharp girls too, as Topper could have told you. Another foreshadowed element is the "Doom" written across the Ignorant boy's brow. 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. Apart from its sacred meaning, it is a time for goodness and charity. Introduce him to me, and Ill cultivate his acquaintance. 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. The image of the oyster is almost perfect for Scrooge at this stage in the book. God bless us.. Dickens subtly informs the reader of the extent of the Cratchits poverty by emphasizing the fact that the family display of glass consists of only two tumblers and a custard-cup without a handle. Note that in the next line though, Dickens makes it clear that this family is grateful and happy despite their poverty. It is associated with the holiday season in Western countries and specifically with Thanksgiving in North America. And so it was! This large cake is used for the celebrations of the Twelfth-night, or the evening before Epiphany and the general closing of the Christmas celebrations. Scrooge started back, appalled. My life upon this globe is very brief, replied the Ghost. This idea taking full possession of his mind, he got up softly and shuffled in his slippers to the door. Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief. God love it, so it was! The way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker, was an outrage on the credulity of human nature. The time is drawing near.. carrying their dinners to the baker shops. Details Title 'A Christmas Carol' Quotes Stave 3 Description English Literature GCSE Paper 1 Total Cards 10 Subject English Level 10th Grade Created 12/03/2016 Click here to study/print these flashcards . They are described as wretched because they are almost a "Christmas kryptonite." Ignorance and Want go against all that is wholesome about Christmas, giving, kindness, and glee. 503 Words. Whats the consequence? Which of these does notemphasize that they are poor? 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. george jenkins high school band, dried plums are commonly known as raisins,