He touches the bed to make sure it is real before laughingly claiming to be <em>"giddy as a dru-nk man."</em> A child answers his call from the window and informs him that it is Christmas Day.
Scrooge is pleased to learn that the spirits completed their work in a single night. After arriving home, Scrooge receives visits from three spirits as well as the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. They are the Christmas Ghosts of the Past, Present, and Future.
As Stave 5 of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol begins, it is understandable that Scrooge is overjoyed to wake up—alive—in his own bed after the depressing things the Ghost of Christmas Future shown him.
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Answer: D: to warn them that tensions in town were escalating
Explanation:
In the book Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, Mr Jamieson, a white lawyer who is sympathetic to the black families in the south, comes to David Logan to warn him about tensions rising in town due to the boycott of the Wallace store which was run by the racist and violent Wallace brothers.
David Logan and his family had led a boycott of the Wallace General store such that black people stopped shopping there and began shopping at Vicksburg instead.
This started ruining the business of the Wallace store and this led to one of the brothers, Thomas Wallace, telling people he was going stop the purchasing from Vicksburg. Mr Jamieson upon hearing this, came to tell David (Papa) about the rising tension in the town.