Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol to raise ... if only he would open up. Flint is a stone which can be used to make a spark to start a fire. At the start of the book Scrooge is shown to be very ...

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Charles Dickens sets him up as ... end of A Christmas Carol things have completely changed. The way Scrooge feels about Bob Cratchit’s family is perhaps the biggest change in the book altogether.