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A Christmas Carol - Stave 4 - Coggle Diagram
A Christmas Carol - Stave 4
1: Introduction to the Phantom
'I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart'
Change
Scrooge is willing to follow the spirit
'separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded'
The Phantom is their to represent the fear of death.
The Phantom is there to scare Scrooge and make him change his way.
Religious
The outstretched hand of the Phantom symbolises the story from the old Testament from the Bible.
The story of The feast of Belshazzar
2: Business Men
'He had made a point always of standing well in their esteem...' ' "Well!" said the first. "Old scratch has got his own at last, hey." '
3:Old Joe and Mrs Dilber
'The ways were foul and narrow; the shops and houses wretched; the people half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly.', 'He frightened every one away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead. Ha, ha, ha!'
'wicked old screw'
insults
using this as justification for stealing his belongings
The items they had stolen shows the depravity of the thieves
4: The Corpse
'Avarice. hard-dealing, griping cares. They have brought him to a rich end, truly.'
In this quote it shows us that the whoever is the corpse like money and would want to keep it no matter what as it says 'Avarice'.
In this quote at the end it says 'a rich end, truly' this shows us that they are joking about him and Scrooge realises that money doesn't matter after death
We as readers can deduce that this corpse is Scrooge
5: Young Couple
' "He is dead."...she was thankful in her soul to hear it, and she said so, with clasped hands.'
6: Tiny Tim's Death
'Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God.'
This shows us how much Tiny Tim is valued
Tiny Tim is a prime example of a person that readers should aspire to be like
This is a good contrast to Scrooge's death as Tiny Tim got lots after death like a nice green place whereas with Scrooge's death he just got things taken off of him because of how nasty he had been.
In this situation Fred is altruistic and compassionate towards the Cratchits
7: The Graveyard
'Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation's death, not life, choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite.
Dickens contrasts Scrooge's burial with Tiny Tim's burial.
Scrooge gets the burial that represents his life.
'I am not the man I was'
These statements sound definite
'his own name, EBENEZER SCROOGE'
This is a heightened moment
A moment of anagnorisis
'I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year, I will live in the Past, the present, and the future.
Declarative statement
All ghosts were equally important in his transformation