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    This passage introduces the character of Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It describes him in harsh terms as a miserly, cold-hearted man who is disliked and avoided by those around him. Scrooge is presented as physically cold and unfeeling. He inspires no warmth or kindness in others. People go out of their way to avoid interacting with Scrooge due to his unpleasant demeanor. Overall, Dickens establishes early on that Scrooge is a lonely and unlikeable character disdained by the community.

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    This passage introduces the character of Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It describes him in harsh terms as a miserly, cold-hearted man who is disliked and avoided by those around him. Scrooge is presented as physically cold and unfeeling. He inspires no warmth or kindness in others. People go out of their way to avoid interacting with Scrooge due to his unpleasant demeanor. Overall, Dickens establishes early on that Scrooge is a lonely and unlikeable character disdained by the community.

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    S1P8---Views-on-Scrooge

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    This passage introduces the character of Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It describes him in harsh terms as a miserly, cold-hearted man who is disliked and avoided by those around him. Scrooge is presented as physically cold and unfeeling. He inspires no warmth or kindness in others. People go out of their way to avoid interacting with Scrooge due to his unpleasant demeanor. Overall, Dickens establishes early on that Scrooge is a lonely and unlikeable character disdained by the community.

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    Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

    Read the following extract from Chapter 1 and then answer the question that follows.

    In this extract the narrator is introducing us to the character of Scrooge.

    Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone,


    Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching,
    covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no
    steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-
    5 contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze
    his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek,
    stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and
    spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his
    head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his
    10 own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in
    the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas.
    External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No
    warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that
    blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon
    15 its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather
    didn’t know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow,
    and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in
    only one respect. They often “came down” handsomely, and
    Scrooge never did. of the funeral, and solemnised it with an
    20 undoubted bargain.
    Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome
    looks, “My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to
    see me?” No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children
    asked him what it was o’clock, no man or woman ever once in
    25 all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of
    Scrooge. Even the blind men’s dogs appeared 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 as
    though they said, “No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark
    master!”

    0 8 Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present people’s views on Scrooge.

    Write about:

    • how Dickens presents views of Scrooge in this extract


    • how Dickens presents views of Scrooge in the novel as a whole.

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