Which best describes the conflict between scrooge and the two charity men in "stave i: marley's ghost"?
a. the men want scrooge to provide cratchit with better pay and working conditions, but scrooge insists that cratchit is lucky to have a job at all and should be grateful.
b. the men want scrooge to take down marley's name from the countinghouse, but scrooge insists on leaving it up because it is good for business.
c. the men want scrooge to give money to the poor, but scrooge insists that the prisons and workhouses can provide the poor with basic necessities.
d. the men want scrooge to go to christmas dinner with them, but scrooge insists that anyone who celebrates christmas is a fool.

The courage that my mother had went with her, and is with her still: rock from new england quarried; now granite in a granite hill. the golden brooch my mother wore she left behind for me to wear; i have no thing i treasure more: yet, it is something i could spare. oh, if instead she'd left to me the thing she took into the grave! - that courage like a rock, which she has no more need of, and i have. based on the 2nd stanza, how does the speaker feel about the golden brooch that was passed down from the mother to child? question 2 options: a: the speaker thinks it was a waste of money b: the speaker places a high value on the item c: the speaker never wears the brooch d: the speaker feels it could be easily replaced