11/21/2013
Indirect Characterization:
SPEECH
Quote
Direct Characterization
stated directly by the narrator
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“If I could work my will, every Scrooge
idiot who goes about with
‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips,
should be boiled with his own
pudding, and buried with a
stake of holly through is heart.
He should!’”
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Quote
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"Oh, But he was a tight-fisted Narrator
hand at the grindstone,
Scrooge! a squeezing,
wrenching, grasping,
scraping, clutching, covetous
old sinner! Hard and sharp
as flint..."
Indirect Characterization
Indirect Characterization
Thoughts of the character
Effect on others; others character’s
opinions
Quote
Character Page
Narrator
“Scrooge was very much
dismayed to hear the spectre
going on at this rate, and
began to quake exceedingly."
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Quote
Character Page
“Scrooge seized the ruler
with such energy of action,
that the singer fled in
terror..."
Narrator
Indirect Characterization
Indirect Characterization
Actions
Looks
Quote
Character Page
“And even Scrooge was not so
Narrator
dreadfully cut up by the sad event,
but that he was an excellent man of
business on the very day of the
funeral..."
"Quite satisfied, he closed his door,
Narrator
and locked himself in; double-locked
himself in, which was not his
custom."
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10
2
Quote
7
Character Page
"The cold within him froze his old Narrator
features, nipped his pointed nose,
shriveled his cheek, stiffened his
gait; made his eyes red, his thin
lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly
in his grating voice. A frosty rime
was on his head, and on his
eyebrows, and his wiry chin."
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