Christmas Stories: Angel´s Dust

Imagine a staged production of A Christmas Carol set in 1843. See the stage set in the exact time it was written by Charles Dickens. The foggy, crowded streets abuzz with carolers and shoppers, the children staring wide eyed into the shops and bakeries. Hear the bells ringing as a round of “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” fills the gaslit streets with joy. As a child, going to see A Christmas Carol was one of my fondest Christmas memories. To witness Scrooge 's’ transformation from a mean, greedy old man to a joyous, loving benefactor always left me smiling and filled me with hope.

The topic of this essay made me start to brainstorm about all the books I have read throughout middle school and high school and which books have impacted me. I wanted to pick a piece that actually had a meaning in my life and not just a book that I was forced to read. Out of all the pieces that I have read I wanted to pick one that affected my life in some way. With that said, I decided to write about A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I first read A Christmas Carol when I was younger but when I really got into the book was in 7th grade. A Christmas Carol was published on December 19, 1843 by Chapman and Hall in London. A Christmas Carol showed me that the choices I make affect me the others around me in more ways than what is happening in that moment, it can affect everyone in the past, present, and the future. It has impacted my life in this way, by how I write and how it makes me think of the past, present, and future while I am writing an essay.

It was two days before Christmas, when Josephine opened the door to her 12 year old son’s room. Chay was the oldest of her four children, and the one she related to most. As Josephine sat down on the edge of the bed, Chay opened his eyes slowly. The dim light that seeped through the partially opened door revealed tears in his mother’s eyes.

With this section of the novel concluding, the audience has an invested a substantial amount of hope in the possibility of scrooge altering his miserable ways. Evidenced here ‘"No. I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now! That 's all." Showing the audience that Scrooge is starting to comprehend all the lives he has affected negatively.

Once upon a time there was a guy name Mr. Scrooge.He was a mean men and cruel old men. He worked with a men named Jacob Ebenezer that died and came to haunt him to tell scrooge about Christmas and how its important to family's, all around.That night he was visited by three ghost. I think the ghost of Christmas past had more influence.

Scrooge Scrooge is disrespectful to everyone around him. He is miserable now that Marley, his business partner of many years has died. According to the text, Scrooge hates things like happiness, generosity, and Christmas. Oh!

marriage and gender roles. In the case of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens wants readers to see how living a life that radiates love and promotes happiness is better than being selfish and living a miserable life, and how past circumstances heavily influence who we are as people. The two messages both authors want readers to take away from the story, although different, achieve the takeaway through the utilization first person narration.

The bunkhouse was nearly empty, the men in the dining hall. The sun was just rising above the horizon, peeking through the dusty windows. If a blind man walked into the rectangular building, he would have never known a man named George was sitting on a bunk near the blackened stove, gazing at the floor, his eyes full of morose. The mattress next to him and the shelves hanging above it were empty, as if no one had sat on the bed or placed their belongings on the makeshift apple box shelves in a long while.

Have you ever watch a Christmas carol because I know I have we watch in school in class so we could do this paper on it. I hop you like it because I am going to tell you about this man that get's a visit by a ghost he was so scared he didn't know what to do. the ghost said that he was going to see 3 ghost and so he run and in to his bed bed and try to hid what would you do if that happened to you? Now stay tun for more defiles."The spirit then shows Scrooge the day when his beloved younger sister Fan picked him up from the school after repeatedly asking their cold, unloving father to allow his return, as she joyfully claims that he has changed and is now kinder than he was.The Ghost of Christmas Past is the first of the three spirits (after

Many teens, in the United States take advantage of Christmas such as myself. On Friday, December 9th of 2016, I went to the DHR in Geneva, Alabama to wrap Christmas gifts for children in the foster care system. My parents also told me that there are kids that didn’t get anything for Christmas now I know what they meant.

Once upon a time, on christmas eve, Scrooge was counting houses in the cold, bleak and biting winter. He heard people in the court outside going up and down, beating their hands on their breast, and stamping their feet on their pavement stone trying to warm themselves up. Scrooge wanted to keep an eye on his clerk who was in a gloomy cell and was copying letters. Scrooge had a small

There were four ghosts that visited a man named Ebenezer Scrooge on different nights throughout the book A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens. This happened because of Scrooge’s terrible mood and how he would treat everybody. Each of these ghosts were very influential to him about changing into a kinder person, but there was one who obviously did more than the others to help change Scrooge. The one that was the most influential, is known as the Ghost of the Christmas Future. There were multiple things that it does to Scrooge throughout its time, showing him different events throughout the future.

“Parents who can’t get their kids gifts want to do that, and some kids believe in Santa, which is awesome,” Manibusan explained. “So we took the gifts and put them where the kids couldn’t see them, and while they were having fun, the parents could take them to the car. That way they could give it to them on Christmas like any other family.”

The Ghost of Christmas is most responsible for fixing Scrooge’s tattered personality.These were the words in my heart when I concluded reading A Christmas carol.The ghost of the Christmas present showed Scrooge that the salary that he thought was bountiful, was actually forcing the Cratchits to live in poverty.The Ghost of Christmas past also showed Scrooge that even in poor times Christmas can be celebrated.The Cratchits didn’t have an expensive meal, it was all they could afford.Despite how poor they were it was a great meal, not because of the price but because their happiness and satisfaction.It wasn’t about the money, because happiness can’t be bought.The Ghost informed Scrooge that if Tiny tim would die if he didn’t have further medications.As a result to Scrooge begged and pleaded to the Ghost to have mercy on the naïve boy.The ghost of christmas present warmed Scrooge’s heart on the right spot,because he knew that Scrooge was a good soul in a cold heart.

Two months had passed and it had still been the same routine. Westley was just hoping that he could make it through the day when there was an earsplitting noise coming from the other end of the mill. He rushed to check. One of the machines had exploded and cotton was flying everywhere. The manager was running around frantically like a fox chasing after a rabbit and everyone else either stood horrified or ran out of the mill. One thought came to Westley’s mind: his friends! He didn’t know where they were or what had happened. All he knew is that both Thomas and Richard worked on machines. He started to run around frantically.