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Discussion Questions - A Christmas Carol
Stave One ~
1. What is the simile in the second paragraph? What is its effect?
2. Why does the narrator make such a point of Marley’s being dead?
3. Whydoesn’t the weather affect Scrooge?
4. How is Scrooge’s nephew different from Scrooge?
5. What do the “portly gentlemen” who come in after Scrooge’s nephew leave want?
6. What is the impact onScrooge when the knocker changes?
7. Why does Scrooge like the darkness?
8. What has Marley’s ghost been doing since his death?
9. Why does Marley warn Scrooge? What is the impact on the reader? What’sthe point?
10. Why are the phantoms upset?
[pic]Stave Two ~
1. What was the strangest thing about the way the spirit looked? (Note the sentence beginning “but the strangest thing…)
2. Why isScrooge’s initial attitude toward the spirit so important?
3. What is different about Scrooge when he says “Remember it? I could walk it with a blindfold?”
4. Who is Scrooge talking about when he says“Poor boy!”?
5. What does it tell us about Scrooge when Dickens observes” a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character.”?
6. When Fan comes to pick Scrooge up, we learn a reason whyScrooge may have turned out the way he did. What is this reason?
7. What kind of people are the Fezziwigs?
8. Who is Belle and why was she important to Scrooge?
9. Why does Scrooge say “Remove me.”What does this tell us about his character?
10. How does Scrooge try to "extinguish the light"? Does he succeed? What is the light a symbol of?
[pic]Stave Three ~
First Half ~
1. How is what Scroogeis thinking as he lies in bed waiting to see if the spirit appears different from the previous chapter?
2. What does the spirit look like?
3. What is this ghost’s personality like?
4. How hasScrooge’s attitude toward his being escorted by a ghost changed?
5. What is the point of the long description beginning “The house fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker”and continuing...