What good description is found in Stave I? Besides the character sketch of Scrooge, there is a picture of Christmas Eve in the London streets, in the paragraph beginning "Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened".
Stave II
What is described in this chapter? The visit of the first spirit.
What was it? The "Ghost of Christmas Past".
Read me a description of it. "It was a strange figure ... like a child ... which it held under its arm".
What does the spirit do? It forces Scrooge to accompany it and shows him former Christmas scenes in his life.
What are these scenes? Scrooge as a solitary boy at school; his boyhood stories, Ali Baba and Robinson Crusoe; his sister; Fezziwig's ball; Scrooge's sweetheart; scenes in her married life.
What is the mood of these different scenes? There is humour, and a great deal of fun, as well as some pathos. It is all told in a lively style.
What are the best descriptions? Fezziwig's ball, and the remembrance of the scenes in Ali Baba.
Stave III