Stave 5: Read the extract below then answer the question that follows. Here, Scrooge wakes up to realise he has been given another chance will live in the Past, the Present, and the Scrooge “I Future!” repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. of all Three shall “The Spirits strive within me. Oh Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob, on my knees!” He was so fluttered and so glowing with his good intentions, that his broken voice would scarcely answer to his call. He had been sobbing violently in his conflict with the Spirit, and his face was wet with tears. are not cried Scrooge, folding one of his bedcurtains “They torn down,” in his arms, are not torn down, rings and all. They are “they here—I am here—the shadows of the things that would have been, may be dispelled. They will be. I know they will!” His hands were busy with his garments all this time; turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance. know what to cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in “I don’t do!” the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am “I as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world. Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!” Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present Scrooge as a changed man?
Stave 5: Read the extract below then answer the question that follows. Here, Scrooge wakes up to realise he has been given another chance “I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!” Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. “The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. Oh Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob, on my knees!” He was so fluttered and so glowing with his good intentions, that his broken voice would scarcely answer to his call. He had been sobbing violently in his conflict with the Spirit, and his face was wet with tears. “They are not torn down,” cried Scrooge, folding one of his bedcurtains in his arms, “they are not torn down, rings and all. They are here—I am here—the shadows of the things that would have been, may be dispelled. They will be. I know they will!” His hands were busy with his garments all this time; turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance. “I don’t know what to do!” cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world. Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!” Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present Scrooge as a changed man?
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