A+Christmas+Carol+Stave+One

[|Now, who's not nice?]


 * ==What narrative hook does the opening sentence of Stave One imply? ==


 * ==//"You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail."// Why do you think Dickens directly addresses "you" here? ==


 * =Re-read the description of Scrooge in the 6th paragraph of Stave One (beginning with "Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!"). What does this description tell you of his character? Which words does Dickens use to create an image of Scrooge? =


 * ==Contrast Scrooge and his nephew. How are they different? ==


 * == Why does Scrooge like the darkness? ==