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A Christmas Carol, Stave Five
Scrooge wakes up on Christmas morning. He sends a turkey to the Cratchits, goes to Fred's, raises Bob's pay, and keeps Christmas all year.
A Christmas Carol has 5 chapters, which Dickens called staves. Stave Five comes last, after Stave Four. The 7 key lines here come from Scrooge and the narrator.
This stave in five words
Scroogewakesandbecomeskind
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The quotes
7 big quotes in this stave.
I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.
Scrooge · Stave Five · redemption · christmas
He wakes up and he is a new man. He talks like a child.
I don't know what day of the month it is!
Scrooge · Stave Five · redemption · time
He does not know the date and does not care. Time has stopped being money.
A merry Christmas, Bob!
Scrooge · Stave Five · redemption · family · christmas
He says it to his clerk with a real smile and raises his pay.
He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew
Narrator · Stave Five · redemption · responsibility
How the story ends. Friend, boss, man. Good at all three.
to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father.
Narrator · Stave Five · family · redemption · poverty
Tiny Tim lives. Scrooge makes sure of it.
God bless Us, Every One!
Narrator · Stave Five · christmas · family
The last words of the book. Tiny Tim's line, for everyone.
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