A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Week 7: Review & Reflection — Looking Back Across the Story
Review your notes and any passages that stood out to you from all five Staves of A Christmas Carol.
Previewing Week 7 of A Christmas Carol
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Now that you have traveled through all five Staves, this final week invites you to look back across the whole journey — to notice what has changed in your own thinking, and to consider what you will carry forward.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Which of the five Staves affected you most deeply, and why? Was there a specific scene, image, or line of dialogue that has stayed with you since you read it?
2.Marley tells Scrooge: 'The chain I wear I forged in life, link by link and yard by yard.' Looking back across your own life, what habits, attitudes, or patterns of relating to others have you been forging — and what do you want to do differently?
3.The three Ghosts represent three kinds of moral vision: the ability to see your past clearly, to see the present lives of others fully, and to see where your current course is leading. Which of these three kinds of sight do you find hardest to sustain in your own life, and why?