In this excerpt from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, what can we conclude from Scrooge’s reaction to the door knocker?
The hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady one, but write it he did, somehow, and went downstairs to open the street door, ready for the coming of the poulterer’s man. As he stood there, waiting his arrival, the knocker caught his eye. “I shall love it, as long as I live!” cried Scrooge, patting it with his hand. “I scarcely ever looked at it before. What an honest expression it has in its face! It’s a wonderful knocker!—Here’s the Turkey! Hallo! Whoop! How are you! Merry Christmas!”
Small objects such as the door knocker help us see the honesty that surrounds us.
Even simple things that we overlook every day can have great value in our lives.
Mysterious objects such as the door knocker can possess magical powers.
We should value our oldest possessions over all others.
