Writing down your questions always first
The doorknocker is an important object, though. The doorknocker showed Scrooge Jacob Marley's face, in which led him through the events of the "night before Christmas" Without have seeing Jacob Marley's face he wouldn't have had any motivation.
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I would need the passage or article to answer those questions!