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stave 1 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 'i cant afford to make idle people merry'
      - ' he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!'
    - - i don't make myself merry at Christmas
      - 'meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened'
      - if they would rather die.. they better do it, and decrease the surplus population'
      - 'piercing, searching, biting cold
    - - 'solitary as an oyster'
    - - ' Marley was dead: to begin with
    - - but the clerk's fire was very much smaller'
    - - "Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?"
        
        When Scrooge says Christmas is a 'humbug' we see him rejecting all the compassion and celebration that is linked with the festive season
  - - - 'oh what a wonderful pudding'
      - ' and bob served it out with beaming looks
      - 'tried to warm himself'
      - who, as cold as he was, was warmer than scrooge'
    - - 'his eyes sparkled'
      - 'he was all in a glow: his face was ruddy