Author's note: In class we were given an assignment to identify the tone,meaning and purpose, about a specific passage from the novel Christmas Carol.
“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” Pg.73 Stave Three
Among all three Staves I have read, a passage written in Stave Three caught my attention by its tone and its meaning. The meaning goes far beyond than just humor and having a good laugh every now and then. The passage conveys the loneliness and depression Scrooge feels, “That while there is infection in disease and sorrow”. Within those few words, it clearly shows the tone of Scrooge, which is lonely and cold. In contrast, the nephew represents the part of the passage that states, “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor”. As you can tell the tone is different from the start of the passage to the end of the passage. The purpose of this passage is to show the contagious of infection is of sorrow in comparison to the
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