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Fan visits Scrooge at school
This shows that he was loved and loved as a little boy.
"'I have come to bring you home, dear brother!' said the child, clapping her tiny hands, and bending down to laugh. 'To bring you home, home, home!' 'Home little Fan?' returned the boy." (Dickens 21)
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Marley visits Scrooge
This shows the start of Scrooge's changing process.
"The same face: the very same. Marley..." (Dickens 21)
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No one acknowledges Scrooge in the streets.
Scrooge is not approachable or friendly, and people know it.
"Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, 'My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come see me?'" (Dickens 12)
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Scrooge visits Belle and her family.
People see his loneliness and unhappiness. That began was the cause of Scrooge and Bell's breakup.
"'Belle,' said the husband, turning to his wife with a smile, 'I saw an old friend of yours this afternoon.' 'Who was it?' (...) 'Mr.Scrooge it was.(...) and there he sat alone. Quite alone in the world, I do believe.'" (Dickens 40)
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Scrooge raises Bob's salary and let's him use more coal.
When Scrooge raises Bob's salary and let's him keep warm by using more coal Bob thinks he's gone insane. His reaction shows how much his experience changed him.
"'(...)and therefore I am about to raise your salary!' Bob trembled, and got a little nearer to the ruler. He had a momentary idea of knocking Scrooge down with it. holding him, and calling to the people in the court for help and a strait-waistcoat."
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Mrs. Cratchit talks harshly of Scrooge at Christmas dinner.
People know him as a mean, lonely, and angry man.
"'I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appetite for it.'(...) 'I'll drink his health for your sake and the Day's, said Mrs. Cratchit, 'not for his.'" (Dickens 52)
Indirect: Speech -
Scrooge hangs his head after the ghost quotes him.
He is ashamed of his past self.
"Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief." (Dickens 52)
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Scrooge sees his own grave.
When Scrooge sees his grave he is completely convicted of his wrongdoings of the past.
"read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, EBENEZER SCROOGE. 'Am I that man who lay upon the bed?' he cried, upon his knees. The finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again. 'No, Spirit! Oh no, no!'" (Dickens 72)
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Scrooge promises to change.
Scrooge promises that he will not be the man he has been, he will turn himself around and be the man he learned to be throughout the night.
"I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse." (Dickens 73)
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Scrooge sends a turkey to the Cratchit's house.
This shows Scrooge's change of heart and how he's trying to make things right.
"Go and buy it, and tell 'em to bring it here, that I may give them the direction where to take it." (...) "I'll send it to Bob Cratchit's!"
Indirect: Action
