Meet the Characters
This Spirit appeared as both young AND old, and its “light” extinguished at the end of the Stave.
Who is the Ghost of Christmas Past?
This number is the amount of weeks it took for Dickens to write A Christmas Carol. It's also the number of sections you'll have on the test!
What is six?
Unlike the novel, where Christmas Present showed a boy Scrooge reading, the movie shows boy Scrooge doing this.
What is singing?
“The slow potatoes, bubbling up, knocked loudly at the saucepan lid to be let out and peeled.”
What is personification?
Dickens uses this city as the scene for A Christmas Carol.
What is London?
The youngest Cratchit boy, whose catchphrase was “God bless us; Every one!”
Who is Tiny Tim?
A young Charles Dickens worked here as boy to help his family earn extra money.
What is a boot-blacking factory?
In the novel, Christmas Present repeats Scrooge's words "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?" In the movie, these people repeat those words to Scrooge.
Who are Ignorance and Want?
"I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel."
What is a simile?
What is the Ghost of Marley wearing when he visits Scrooge?
What are chains?
The former boss of Scrooge, known for throwing extravagant parties.
Who is Fezziwig? OR Who is Mr. Fezziwig?
Dickens was primarily trying to draw attention to this social issue in A Christmas Carol.
What is poverty in London? OR What are poor people in London?
What are horses?
“But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone, Scrooge!”
What is a metaphor?
The Ghost of Christmas Present introduces Scrooge to these two "yellow, meager, scowling, wolfish" children.
Who are Ignorance and Want?
This Spirit had no spoken dialogue in the novel.
Who is the Ghost of Christmas Future?
Dickens cheated on his wife, Catherine, with this 18-year-old actress.
Who is Ellen "Nelly" Ternan? OR Who is Nelly Ternan?
With A Christmas Carol being set in 1843, the beginning of the film with Marley and the coroner takes place in this year.
What is 1836?
“A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December!"
What is an idiom?
A Christmas Carol was published on this day in 1843.
When/what is December 19?
This man ran a “business” for stolen articles and knick-knacks for the poor people of London
Who is Joe? OR Who is Old Joe?
In the 1840s, Dickens went on book tours to the United States and this European country.
What is Italy?
Merely a petty thief in the novel's Stave 4, movie viewers learn that Mrs. Dilber also has this job.
What is Scrooge's housekeeper? OR What is Scrooge's maid?
“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.”
What is an allusion?
This is the jolly buddy of Fred, whom Scrooge sees at Christmas dinner in Stave 3.
Who is Topper?