HELP ASAP! In this excerpt from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, which two elements are developed?
"Spirit," said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, "tell me if Tiny Tim will live."
"I see a vacant seat," replied the Ghost, "in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner,
remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die."
"No, no," said Scrooge. "Oh, no, kind Spirit! say he will be spared."
"If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race," returned the Ghost, "will fir
to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence a
"Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have dis
Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heave
fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on
brothers in the dust!" Scrooge event before the ghosts revoke, and trembling cast his eyes upon the ground. But he raised them speedily, on hearing his own name.
Characterization
Self reflection
Dramatic irony
Setting