HELP PLEASE! In this excerpt from a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, which two sentences suggest that people can alter their future by adjusting their
present course?

1.[Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went and following the finger read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, Ebenezer
Scrooge:]
“Am I that man who lay upon the bed?” he cried, upon his knees.
2.[The finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again.]
"No, Spirit! Oh no, no!”
The finger still was there.
"Spirit!” he cried, clutching at its robe, "hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse.
3.[Why show me this, if l am past all hope!”]
For the first time the hand appeared to shake.
"Good Spirit," he pursued, as down upon the ground he fell before it: "Your nature intercedes for me, and pities me. 4.[Assure me that I yet may
change these shadows you have shown me, by altered life!”]
The kind hand trembled.
"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall
Strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!”
In his agony, he caught the spectral hand. 5.[It sought to free itself, but he was strong in his entreaty, and detained it.] The Spirit, stronger yet,
repulsed him.