EXCERPT FROM 'A CHRISTMAS
CAROL: MARLEY'S GHOST
by Charles Dickens ● 1843
[1] Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no
doubt whatever about that. The register of his
burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk,
the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge
signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon
Change, for anything he chose to put his
hand to, Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. Despite being
forced to drop out of school and work in a factory when his father was put in a debtors'
prison, Dickens created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is often
regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works include A Tale of Two
Cities, Oliver Twist, and Great Expectations In chapter 1 of his novella A Christmas
Carol, "Marley's Ghost," a greedy old miser by the name of Ebenezer Scrooge is visited in
the night by an old friend, who warns him to change his ways before it is too late.
As you read, take notes on Dickens' characterization of Scrooge and how it contributes
to the theme.
Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own
knowledge, what there is particularly dead
about a door-nail. I might have been inclined,
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myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest plece of ironmongery in the trade. But the
wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the
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ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
4. What is the author's likely purpose for the
ngurative language used in paragraph 67 Cite at
least two pieces of evidence from the paragraph in
your response.
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