A CHRISTMAS CAROL - STAVE 1
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- *grumble*
- The tale opens with the declaration that Jacob Marley, Scrooge's business partner, is as dead as a doornail. Scrooge is portrayed as a miserly and unkind individual, while Bob Cratchit is seen attempting to warm his hands over a flickering candle as the feeble fire begins to fade.
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- HUMBUG!
- Fred, Scrooge's nephew, greets him with a "Merry Christmas" and invites a dinner, but Scrooge dismisses him with a grumpy "Bah! Humbug!"He adds that anyone who wishes him a "Merry Christmas" deserves to be boiled in their own pudding and buried with a holly branch through their heart.
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- Charity for the poor
- If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population
- Scrooge rejects two 'portly gentlemen' collecting charity for the poor, stating prisons and workhouses are enough. He snaps when told many would rather die than go there.
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- If you must...
- Scrooge allows Cratchit early Christmas Day off, leaves the counting house, eats dinner at a tavern, and returns to his isolated, formerly owned house.
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- AHHHH!
- Scrooge discovers his partner Marley's ghostly face on the door knocker, disregarding it. After checking his house, he hears chains dragging up the stairs.
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- It's HUMBUG still
- Marley's ghost has come to warn Scrooge that his miserableness and horridness to others will lead him to the same fate Marley himself suffers in death. To free himself, he must be happy and receive help from three spirits.
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- *sigh*
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