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No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him... He carried his own low temperature always about with him.Read in Books4Free →
Motif: Cold, Fire, and Warmth
From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Temperature imagery tracks moral states throughout: Scrooge carries his own frost; Fezziwig's warehouse blazes; the Ghost of Christmas Present radiates heat.
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Bob Cratchit warming himself at a candle because Scrooge keeps the coal-box in his own room.
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