From "A Christmas Carol" the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge his own gravestone. 'Tis the season of giving, or at least it used to be. For the second year in a row, charitable giving ...

Analysis The indirect speech shows that Scrooge is threatening and in charge. He will not give permission for Cratchit to take more coal. Ill-mannered How is Scrooge like this? His nephew visits ...

The philanthropists who solicited Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve in “A Christmas Carol” made the following pitch: “A few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat ...