Quotes for characters

Fred Stave One (description)

• ‘he was all in a glow … his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked’

Fred Stave 1 (his view on xmas)

• ‘open their shut up hearts freely … people below them … fellow-passengers to the grave’

Fred Stave three

• ‘while there is infection in disease and sorrow , there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour’

The Cratchits Stave 3

• ‘Oh God! to hear the Insects on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!’

The Cratchits Stave 4

‘Quiet. Very quiet’

Marley’s ghost (consequence of his sins)

‘I wear the chains I forged in life’

Marley’s ghost (social responsibility)

“Mankind was my business ... a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”