Author's Note: For Language Arts Class we had to read the book "The Christmas Carol". After we read it we had to choose a passage and then address the tone, purpose and meaning of it in paragraph form. Please comment if you have any ideas on what to add or edit.
"This was not addressed to Scrooge, or to any one whom he could see, but it produced an immediate effect. For again Scrooge saw himself. He was older now, a man in the prime of life. His face had not the harsh and rigid lines of later years, but it had begun to wear the signs of care and avarice. There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall. " (44)
The tone of this passage is lonely and serious . The purpose of this passage is how Scrooge is overlooking his older self. Scrooge looks back on his life and realizes it has gone to waste. He begins to notice that he's pushing people away. He slowly finds that his life is sad and lonely. I think the meaning of this passage is that you can't expect people to like you when you're mean and nasty to them. You can't push people out of your life and think that you're life won't be lonely.
