She was a mild and patient creature if her face spoke truth; but she was thankful in her soul to hear it, and she said so, with clasped hands. “That’s your account,” said Joe, “and I wouldn’t give another sixpence, if I was to be boiled for not doing it. As they sat grouped about their spoil, in the scanty light afforded by the old man’s lamp, he viewed them with a detestation and disgust, which could hardly have been greater, though they demons, marketing the corpse itself. We may sleep to-night with light hearts, Caroline.”. “And then,” cried one of the girls, “Peter will be keeping company with some one, and setting up for himself.”. It really seemed as if he had known our Tiny Tim, and felt with us.”. “It’s a judgment on him.”, “I wish it was a little heavier judgment,” replied the woman; “and it should have been, you may depend upon it, if I could have laid my hands on anything else. “Don’t drop that oil upon the blankets, now.”, “Whose else’s do you think?” replied the woman. Instant downloads of all 1408 LitChart PDFs (including A Christmas Carol). “I hope they do. 4 Stave Three : The Second Of The Three Spirits 20 ... and A Christmas Carol was written in 1843, so the new Exchange would have been completed very recently. Its finger pointed to two persons meeting. “Is that so, Spirit?”. “I understand you,” Scrooge returned, “and I would do it, if I could. It would have done you good to see how green a place it is. But for this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded. Secrets that few would like to scrutinise were bred and hidden in mountains of unseemly rags, masses of corrupted fat, and sepulchres of bones. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.” Stave 5: I know it, but I know not how. “And so have I,” exclaimed another. I have not the power.”, “If there is any person in the town, who feels emotion caused by this man’s death,” said Scrooge quite agonised, “show that person to me, Spirit, I beseech you.”. Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in! Stave: Context LO: To revise Dickens purpose and rhetoric in writing the novella. Indeed, the Spirit did not stay for anything, but went straight on, as to the end just now desired, until besought by Scrooge to tarry for a moment. He thought, if this man could be raised up now, what would be his foremost thoughts. Didactic 5. Scrooge followed in the shadow of its dress, which bore him up, he thought, and carried him along. XY„9丈b4:hÍÒÉ¢'8Al†û…àƒâŒZYÃ%„?x~ˆgä9ÂâÌ:AĞFŞC�Á�‘ÛáË–!± ×îŒFŒ/[œX§|Ópmğ:ÈÕèÍÏb%pBÎÃQÀo�ùA•g–�bnîÿ߲İh00$oxº3/zÚÓ]ë€�µ Since A Christmas Carol was written in 1843, the number of brothers that the Ghost of Christmas Present claims to have likely refers to his having a brother for each year. A worthy place! It’s a weakness of mine, and that’s the way I ruin myself,” said old Joe. It sought to free itself, but he was strong in his entreaty, and detained it. No. •Scrooge’s room has ‘undergone a surprising transformation’ (p.41). Look here, old Joe, here’s a chance. It must be near his time.”, “Past it rather,” Peter answered, shutting up his book. The Spirit pauses a moment, as observing his condition, and giving him time to recover. “Is it good.” she said, “or bad?” – to help him. Retrieved February 16, 2021, from https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/160/a-christmas-carol/2828/stave-iv/. But I’ll offer to go, if anybody else will. A CHRISTMAS CAROL - FULL AudioBook by Charles Dickens | GreatestAudioBooks BEST VERSION V5 Give the gift of audiobooks! I stole her heart away, and put ice in its place. They scarcely seemed to enter the city; for the city rather seemed to spring up about them, and encompass them of its own act. Finally, Scrooge sees two monstrous children: Ignorance and Want. He couldn’t help it. The Ghost of Christmas Present suggests that without education, those who live in ignorance and want have no refuge except prisons and workhouses. 3. But you’ll see it often. But she had scarcely entered, when another woman, similarly laden, came in too; and she was closely followed by a man in faded black, who was no less startled by the sight of them, than they had been upon the recognition of each other. That was the only answer he received. Poor Bob sat down in it, and when he had thought a little and composed himself, he kissed the little face. The bed was his own, the room was his own. When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery. A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens Stave 5 - The End of it Yes! “I thought he’d never die.”. Then the two young Cratchits got upon his knees and laid, each child a little cheek, against his face, as if they said, “Don’t mind it, father. They would be done long before Sunday, he said. He left the room, and went up-stairs into the room above, which was lighted cheerfully, and hung with Christmas. A Christmas Carol is an allegorical story (a story with a moral lesson) and Dickens cleverly calls the five chapters “staves” as a means of creating an extended metaphor for his novel. “Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,” said Scrooge. A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon the bed; and on it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man. 2. Scrooge in Stave Three •We learn about how Christmas is celebrated in different places, and by different people. “What odds then. “I always give too much to ladies. “What the half-drunken woman whom I told you of last night, said to me, when I tried to see him and obtain a week’s delay; and what I thought was a mere excuse to avoid me; turns out to have been quite true. Who’s next?”. They were severally examined and appraised by old Joe, who chalked the sums he was disposed to give for each upon the wall, and added them up into a total when he found there was nothing more to come. Ha, ha! He hasn’t left it to me. At length the long-expected knock was heard. Stave 3 The Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge people celebrating Christmas: the Cratchit family, people in solitary places, and his nephew, Fred. The ThemeTracker below shows where, and to what degree, the theme of Past, Present and Future – The Threat of Time appears in each chapter of A Christmas Carol. It is not that the hand is heavy and will fall down when released; it is not that the heart and pulse are still; but that the hand was open, generous, and true; the heart brave, warm, and tender; and the pulse a man’s. “Left it to his company, perhaps. Allegory 2. And see his good deeds springing from the wound, to sow the world with life immortal! “Very well observed, my boy!” cried Bob. He sat down to the dinner that had been boarding for him by the fire; and when she asked him faintly what news (which was not until after a long silence), he appeared embarrassed how to answer. This collection of children's literature is a part of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse and is funded by various grants. He had made a point always of standing well in their esteem: in a business point of view, that is; strictly in a business point of view. “But I think he’s walked a little slower than he used, these few last evenings, mother.”. Annotated A Christmas Carol Stave 4.pdf. 4 A Christmas Carol: Revision or AQA English iterature English Media Centre 017 Teachers’ Notes These revision materials have been designed to use with students sitting the AQA GCSE English ... Read a stave that you need to revise. A seal or two, a pencil-case, a pair of sleeve-buttons, and a brooch of no great value, were all. Stave 5: The End of It Yes! “This courts,” said Scrooge, “through which we hurry now, is where my place of occupation is, and has been for a length of time. The finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again. Scrooge was at first inclined to be surprised that the Spirit should attach importance to conversations apparently so trivial; but feeling assured that they must have some hidden purpose, he set himself to consider what it was likely to be. “But I must be fed, if I make one.”, “Well, I am the most disinterested among you, after all,” said the first speaker,” for I never wear black gloves, and I never eat lunch. In leaving it, I shall not leave its lesson, trust me. He looked about in that very place for his own image; but another man stood in his accustomed corner, and though the clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there, he saw no likeness of himself among the multitudes that poured in through the Porch. You were made free of it long ago, you know; and the other two an’t strangers. “Don’t you be afraid of that,” returned the woman. Nothing of … A Christmas Carol Full Text: Stave 4 Page 3 The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing. “I’m sure he’s a good soul,” said Mrs Cratchit. “Well!” said the first. “Why not?”, “You were born to make your fortune,” said Joe,” and you’ll certainly do it.”, “I certainly shan’t hold my hand, when I can get anything in it by reaching it out, for the sake of such a man as he was, I promise you, Joe,” returned the woman coolly. "“Stave IV”." Best and happiest of all, the time before him was his own, to make amends in! Sheets and towels, a little wearing apparel, two old-fashioned silver teaspoons, a pair of sugar-tongs, and a few boots. Stave 1: Marley's Ghost | Stave 2: The First of the Three Spirits Stave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits | Stave 4: The Last of the Spirits Stave 5: The End of It. This must be distinctly It was "shrouded in a deep black garment." The Spirit stopped; the hand was pointed elsewhere. She was expecting some one, and with anxious eagerness; for she walked up and down the room; started at every sound; looked out from the window; glanced at the clock; tried, but in vain, to work with her needle; and could hardly bear the voices of the children in their play. Why did he not go on? The old man raked the fire together with an old stair-rod, and having trimmed his smoky lamp (for it was night), with the stem of his pipe, put it in his mouth again. Web. He broke down all at once. Come into the parlour.”. But I have not the power, Spirit. The furniture was not the same, and the figure in the chair was not himself. “What do you call wasting of it?” asked old Joe. xÚìÑ1 ÄÀûäa¯˜ c›�´k§I1GÏá9�Ãs. “I wish you could have gone. Suppose we make up a party and volunteer?”, “I don’t mind going if a lunch is provided,” observed the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose. “God knows,” said the first, with a yawn. “Somebody was fool enough to do it, but I took it off again. It gave him little surprise, however; for he had been revolving in his mind a change of life, and thought and hoped he saw his new-born resolutions carried out in this. Dickens, C. (1843). His tea was ready for him on the hob, and they all tried who should help him to it most. Stave IV is the visit of the last spirit, the Ghost of Christmas yet to come. “The house is yonder,” Scrooge exclaimed. Marley's Ghost | Stave 2: The First of the Three Spirits Stave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits | Stave 4: The Last of the Spirits Stave 5: The End of It A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens Stave 2: The First of the Three Spirits hen Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. (pg.27) Which part of society do they represent? List three quotations that link to the theme of guilt in An Inspector Calls. Bob was very cheerful with them, and spoke pleasantly to all the family. Annotated A Christmas Carol Stave 4.pdf. Scrooge and the Phantom came into the presence of this man, just as a woman with a heavy bundle slunk into the shop. Lead on, Spirit.”. Stave 4: ‘He frightened everyone away from us when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead.’ `I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. “If he relents,” she said, amazed, “there is. “Ha, ha!” laughed the same woman, when old Joe, producing a flannel bag with money in it, told out their several gains upon the ground. Do you think this is similar to how Christmas is celebrated here today? As you read, you'll be linked to summaries and detailed analysis of quotes and themes. After a short period of blank astonishment, in which the old man with the pipe had joined them, they all three burst into a laugh. “Come into the parlour. “Spirit!” he cried, tight clutching at its robe, “hear me. Write a paragraph for each chapter. Soften it as they would, their hearts were lighter. The spirit doesn’t speak, merely gesturing with its hand or inclining its head to Scrooge’s questions. It was not extensive. A Christmas Carol 4 of 138 event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain. Its steady hand was pointed to the head. A Christmas Carol (Lit2Go Edition). I see the house. A ’change is also, coloquially, a money changer’s o ce, which is probably why Scrooge is typically pictured “He is dead.”. When he roused himself from his thoughtful quest, he fancied from the turn of the hand, and its situation in reference to himself, that the Unseen Eyes were looking at him keenly. “I am very happy,” said little Bob, “I am very happy!”. Yes. It’s quite as becoming to the body. But however and when ever we part from one another, I am sure we shall none of us forget poor Tiny Tim – shall we – or this first parting that there was among us.”, “And I know,” said Bob, “I know, my dears, that when we recollect how patient and how mild he was; although he was a little, little child; we shall not quarrel easily among ourselves, and forget poor Tiny Tim in doing it.”. In his agony, he caught the spectral hand. Detailed explanations, analysis, and citation info for every important quote on LitCharts. Vocabulary 1. Not another word. He knew these men, also, perfectly. The parlour was the space behind the screen of rags. — Wesley, Owl Eyes Editor 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. LitCharts Teacher Editions. “Let the charwoman alone to be the first!” cried she who had entered first. A Christmas Carol. Explain three ways society changed between 1912 and 1945. Merciful Heaven, what is this?”. 2. He lay, in the dark empty house, with not a man, a woman, or a child, to say that he was kind to me in this or that, and for the memory of one kind word I will be kind to him. Diatribe Recap and recall 1. The inexorable finger underwent no change. Stop till I shut the door of the shop. 2. It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand. The hooded spirit fills Scrooge with dread. He was reconciled to what had happened, and went down again quite happy. I am not the man I was. 6 A Christmas Carol: Revision for AQA English iterature English Media Centre, 2017 The Questions (answers on pages 36-38) Stave One 1. They have brought him to a rich end, truly. While he did this, the woman who had already spoken threw her bundle on the floor, and sat down in a flaunting manner on a stool; crossing her elbows on her knees, and looking with a bold defiance at the other two. Grade 7: Christmas Carol Christmas Carol Unit Resources Student Resource Location Section 1: Lessons 1-3 Text: ^The Treasure of Lemon rown _ by Walter Dean Myers Christmas Carol Unit Reader Lesson handouts Pages 2-7 Section 2: Lessons 4-7 Text: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Purchased Text Lesson handouts Pages 8-16 Section 3: Lessons 8-10 Scrooge hastened to the window of his office, and looked in. His nephew Fred visits him The Spirit, stronger yet, repulsed him. No voice pronounced these words in Scrooge’s ears, and yet he heard them when he looked upon the bed. The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come conveyed him, as before – though at a different time, he thought: indeed, there seemed no order in these latter visions, save that they were in the Future – into the resorts of business men, but showed him not himself. Speakers and listeners strolled away, and mixed with other groups. Where had Scrooge heard those words? “That’s enough. “Am I that man who lay upon the bed?” he cried, upon his knees. Strike, Shadow, strike. There is a ‘mighty blaze’ burning in the fireplace and the place is full of food and decorations. 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. “Every person has a right to take care of themselves. “Spectre,” said Scrooge, “something informs me that our parting moment is at hand. What is the name of Scrooge’s business? He knew no more, for the Spirit neither spoke nor moved. The Spirit stood among the graves, and pointed down to One. Let us go.”. My life tends that way, now. It’s the best he had, and a fine one too. Get an answer for ' Why is stave 4 in 'A Christmas Carol' needed when Scrooge's attitude had already changed so much? ' They were very quiet again. Charles Dickens, "“Stave IV”," A Christmas Carol, Lit2Go Edition, (1843), accessed February 16, 2021, https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/160/a-christmas-carol/2828/stave-iv/. He always did.”, “That’s true, indeed,” said the laundress. Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life.”, “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. He joined it once again, and wondering why and whither he had gone, accompanied it until they reached an iron gate. The Phantom spread its dark robe before him for a moment, like a wing; and withdrawing it, revealed a room by daylight, where a mother and her children were. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. “Why, that you were a good wife,” replied Bob. Quiet and dark, beside him stood the Phantom, with its outstretched hand. “Why do you point away?”. Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?”. There is no doubt whatever about that. Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal stove, made of old bricks, was a grey-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age; who had screened himself from the cold air without, by a frowsy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung upon a line; and smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement.
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