At his family home, we realise that his only friends were characters in books, showing he had a very lonely upbringing. This makes the reader feel sympathy as he regains his imagination and ability to feel emotion. However, when we meet his fiancé, we lose our sympathy as he had a chance to be happy, and missed it due to his obsession with wealth and possessions. Although, by the end of the Stave, we again feel sympathy as he begs to go home as he cannot handle the
“You’ll want all day to-morrow, I suppose?’ ‘If quite convenient, sir.’ ‘It’s not convenient, and its not fair.” From the way Scrooge is complaining to his clerk that ‘its not fair’ to have Christmas day off and to when he comprehends how bitter he was towards him, it is distinct that the Ghost of Christmas Past helped him come to this realization. As the novel progresses so does Scrooges’ quest to seek self-improvement.
Are they still in operation?” He feels no compulsion to give charity to support meagre gifts to the poor and dispossessed and dismisses the collectors with “I cannot afford to make idle people merry” and with suggestions that such people would be better dead to “reduce the surplus population.” These suggestions contrast sharply with the generosity of both his nephew, Fred and his clerk, Bob Cratchit. His nephew remarks that Christmas is “a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.” He encourages Scrooge to think...
I then search the memories of Christmas past, and tried to see myself ignoring the common beliefs that our parents taught us. It appears that I couldn’t go on. The world seemed a gloomier, and bleaker place. Every year I suffer through insults, stress, and adapting to changes that I could not foresee. The rational part of me then agrees to my emotional side that Santa Claus is real.
Harmonium and Nettles Harmonium and Nettles both highlight the theme of memory. As they both are looking back over past memories that are painful, the poems feature the feelings of being helpless in stopping the hurt that was caused. The writer in Harmonium feels remorse for the things he hadn’t said to his father as Armitage states “then mouth in reply some shallow sorry phrase or word too starved of breath to make itself heard”. The writer in Nettles is protective of the recurring threat to his child that he can’t destroy. “rain had called up tall recruits behind the shed,” this quote shows the father cannot destroy them .They differ in the way they felt powerless however as in Nettles the father is feeling powerless because of a physical threat whereas in Harmonium it is an emotional threat of the inevibility of death and unspoken feelings that makes the writer feel powerless.
“I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man” (16). Also, he describes the attitude and emotion of this Hindu man before he was hanged. “He walked clumsily with his arms, but quite steadily, with that bobbing muscles slid neatly into place, the lock of hair on his knees” (16). In “A Miserable Merry Christmas,” the author describes his own depressed mood about waiting anxiously for his Christmas present. “Though everybody knew what I wanted, I told them all again.
Nonetheless, it still causes a disagreement between the two people. The speaker thinks that it is not necessary to have the wall. However, on the other hand, his neighbor believes the wall is necessary because of his father’s old saying "good fences make good neighbors" (27, 45), although, it seems contrary to nature. Those two men put up the wall every spring; they tend to put the boundaries between themselves, even though without it there could also be no harm between them. In Jonathan’s paper, his discussions showed that most people think Frost’s opinion is that a wall between each other is a bad thing.
He then sits quietly and hopes the two men won’t see the connection between him and his wife, and that is also the reason for him not saying goodbye to his wife. It almost seems like he acquires the point of view the two unidentified men have. The troubles of Doreen and Earl’s relationship are also made clear by this fact, because this clearly shows that if he hasn’t noticed the extra pounds, then he obviously haven’t been looking. Earl has been living his life completely blind and detached, so detached that he has no visible love for his wife. When he finally wakes up and sees his wife for what she really is, he sees her through the eyes of two strangers.
“..Father’s silence was infinitely more menacing than a flood of threatening speech. That night the old man did not eat,” (pg.260) Pain was obviously felt by the father even though he did not show it because of his pride. The father also experienced pain when his son sent him a letter explaining that his grandchildren want to see him. “That night he hardly slept, from remorse—and a vague fear that he might die without making it up to them.” (pg.262) Besides fear, he also has pain because a thunderstorm is coming in the small village and he starts picturing his grandchildren and he says to himself he
It is ludicrous that a group of adults should be watching ''Bagpuss'' but they seem to accept their lot stoically. We soon learn that the sheltered environment of Carrigmore has kept Michael in a state of immaturity in many ways. He has little or no experience of the outside world. The inability of the carers to treat the residents as normal people is highlighted by Eileen's bungling attempt to make out what Michael is saying as he attempts to warn her of the dangers of the snagged cable. We, the audience, see the situation from Michael's viewpoint and have little sympathy with Eileen or Annie, despite their good intentions.