Reading+Responses+Joel

**Chapter 2—Marley’s Visit ** Discuss the following questions together with your group. Be prepared to share your answers with the whole class.
 * Study Group Questions: **

1. What was the purpose of the ringing bell? To notify when the first ghost appears for Scrooge. 2. Why did Marley visit Scrooge? What does this visit tell us about Marley? To warn Scrooge about the three ghosts that will visit him. Tis tells us that he wants to show what will happen to Scrooge if he doesn’t start being nice. 3. What does Marley’s chain represent? How is the chain made? Marley’s chains represent all of the bad things that he has done in his life. The chain is made when they do a cruel thing to another person that makes a chain and when that person passes on they are forced to wear that chain as a ghost for eternity. 4. What frightens Scrooge the most in this section? That Marley comes and warns him of three ghosts, and that at one o’clock in the morning te first ghost will appear. 5. Explain Marley’s fate. What does Marley explain to Scrooge about his never-ending journey? Marley was a mean man and when he died Scrooge was to throw a funeral and he didn’t spend that much because it was in the back of a shack where things are built. If you are nice to the people around you won’t have chains to drag/carry/or lug around as your ghostly self for the rest of your undead life. 6. What does Scrooge learn from Marley? What will his life be like after death? Also, How long will his change be?