Describe Scrooge's character in stave 1 of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. How does the author convey this character to us? Describe how Scrooge's character changes, concentrating on two incidents from the rest of the novel.

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Kieren Phillips Literature.3. (Prose).

Describe Scrooge's character in stave 1 of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. How does the author convey this character to us? Describe how Scrooge's character changes, concentrating on two incidents from the rest of the novel.

Charles Dickens created a very powerfully gloomy character when he wrote his novel "A Christmas Carol" the character was Ebenezer Scrooge; most people consider Ebenezer Scrooge to be an unsociable, mean, miserable and miserly old man who likes to be by himself. Dickens did this with his use of strong adjectives, powerful use of vocabulary and his use of various techniques for example in the section of the novel when Scrooge is going through the rooms in his house to see if anyone is there. In this section Dickens describes the rooms in Scrooge's house, with the use of this technique we can picture the rooms in our mind.

The techniques Dickens used in stave one include similes and repetition.

"And solitary as an oyster", is a perfect example of one of the similes. Solitary, which means alone, is a strong adjective to use. It needs to be a