“Bah! Humbug!” - Scrooge rejecting Christmas, “A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner” - Description of Scrooge’s miserly nature, “He carried his own low temperature always about with him” - Scrooge spreads coldness wherever he goes, “Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it” - Scrooge prefers being miserable in the dark to spending money, “Are there no prisons?” - Scrooge refuses to help the poor, “Decrease the surplus population” - Scrooge’s cruel view of the poor (let them die!), “Marley was dead: to begin with” - The opening line of the story, “I wear the chain I forged in life” - Marley warning Scrooge. , “Come in! and know me better, man!” - The Ghost of Christmas Present’s invitation, “Jolly Giant, glorious to see” - Description of the Ghost of Christmas Present, “This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want” - Symbolic children representing society’s failings, “God bless us, every one!” - Tiny Tim’s famous hopeful line, “He was a second father” - How Scrooge treats Tiny Tim in the future, “He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man” - How Scrooge changes at the end, “I am as light as a feather” - Scrooge’s joy after waking on Christmas morning,

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