Is still popular belief in monkey's paw?

13 points : ) which two aspects of scrooge's character does this excerpt from a christmas carol by charles dickens reveal? "i wish to be left alone," said scrooge. "since you ask me what i wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. i don’t make merry myself at christmas and i can't afford to make idle people merry. i to support the establishments i have mentioned—they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there." "many can’t go there; and many would rather die." "if they would rather die," said scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. besides—excuse me—i don't know that." "but you might know it," observed the gentleman. his stingy attitude and conduct his distrust of government institutions his indifference to others' suffering his support for the community

In the following sentences, commas are needed after which words? when the clark family planned their summer vacation to hell’s canyon they didn’t plan on having quite so many adventures. from the start they had to deal with a broken-down van a sick baby and torrential rains.

"alexandre, i know you don't like me, listen to me; listen, i beg you. but, my dear, how can this have happened? why, it's awful, awful! for goodness' sake, beg them, defend yourself, entreat them." based on the context clues in the paragraph, which group of words are synonyms of entreat?