Descriptive Essay On Scrooge

The main question on everyone's mind this holiday season is the miraculous transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge. Is he changed for the better or is he hiding his true nature to gain our trust? To answer this, we went straight to the source. Here is a personal interview from the newly made philanthropist. 1)Mr. Scrooge, you were once known as “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!” How would you describe yourself now? I am changed for the better, truly I am. I have found within myself the joy of helping others and have not once felt the need to recede back into my former self. I pay fair wages, donate freely, and spread care wherever I can. What would you say caused this change? You need not believe me,

Ebenezer Scrooge is the major character in the story, A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol is about how a “cold-hearted, tight fisted, selfish” money grabbing man is offered an opportunity of a life time, to change his behaviour, attitude... to have a second chance in life.

Scrooge keeps the coal-box in his own room so the clerk is not able to

A Christmas Carol begins with the information that Marley, business partner and co-owner of ‘Scrooge and Marley’ counting house has been dead for 7 years. The other half of the business owner, Scrooge; however, was very much alive and continued the business. Scrooge has sharp and angular aged features and a stiff walk. No one in particular cares about him and he makes it apparent that they know he does not as well. To certify this description of him, when his nephew greets him with a “Merry Christmas”, Scrooge mutters a “Bah Humbug” and quickly dismisses his excitement for the holiday. He thinks that Christmas is a waste of money and finding another year has passed by and one is no richer. A similar exchange occurs with another man.

The text explicitly states Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous, old sinner has passed away. According to the text, he despises many things such as happiness, humor, and even Christmas. From the reading, I know that he is depressed all the time, consequently his mental state has led him to call other people stupid, dumb, and idiots. On page three, in the conversation with his nephew Fred, Scrooge insults his nephew about marrying and loving his wife. The text states, that he also “seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the frost and even more congenial frost.” From the reading I know that Scrooge isn’t a people person and is very down about life. Based on the text he doesn’t really like being around them. For example Scrooge didn’t donate any money to the poor, and blew off his nephew about spending Christmas with them. In the text it states that there is no wind as bare as Scrooge, this means he doesn't really care or doesn't have many feelings.

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel; I am as merry

A Christmas Carol, a tale that revolves around a man’s fate in the past, the present, and the future. Its story speaks of a man, a man called Ebenezer Scrooge, and the changes in which he goes through. ‘’Oh! But he was tight-fisted man at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, covetous old sinner!

According to the text, Scrooge is a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, who emphatically worships money. Meanwhile, in addition, the text says that Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, clutching, covetous, old sinner. In the text it states, “Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal, but he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal in his room.” The ghost of Jacob Marley visits Scrooge and by showing him a reflection of himself, begins the reformation of Scrooge as we know him at the borderline of the story. The spirit leaves him the opposite from where he was at in the beginning. Throughout the entire beginning of “A Christmas Carol” The miser demeanor is “hard and sharp as flint from which no steel had ever struck”. The text states on page 3 how Scrooge feels about Christmas when he says to the two men who were soliciting money for the poor, “What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ‘em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? ”

In this stave, the Ghost of Christmas Present appears to Scrooge, and shows him people having a happy Christmas, maybe trying to get Scrooge to like Christmas more. Scrooge hears Tiny Tim’s dad, Scrooge’s clerk, say a toast to Scrooge, and Scrooge sees how very poor his clerk is. When he sees his clerk, he sees a family who is very poor, yet they love each other very, very much, and are a happy family, despite the poverty in their home. Scrooge then asks the Ghost if Tiny Tim will live. The Ghost’s answer is no, he will not live, unless something changes. Otherwise, Tiny Tim will end up dead like Marley. As the Ghost of Christmas Present moves on, he takes Scrooge to a boat way out at sea, and shows him him how happy the sailors are. Before the boat appears, though, the Ghost shows Scrooge a lighthouse, where two men are very happy, just like the sailors on the boat out at sea. When Scrooge sees this, he thinks, “Wow. These people are happy, even without their families out there with them.” As time wears on, Mr. Ghost moves Scrooge on to his nephew Fred’s house. In the house, Fred is having a laugh with some of his buddies about how Scrooge doesn't believe in Christmas. Furthermore, Fred says he will ask Scrooge to come over for Christmas every year until he dies. After Fred’s announces this, they start to play some party games such as Blind-Man's Bluff, as well as

The famous novel, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old man who is visited by a series of ghosts, starting with his old business partner, Jacob Marley. The three spirits which follow, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come, show Scrooge how his mean behavior has affected those around him. He is shown how his actions toward the community will affect him and others around him if his behavior does not change.

Scrooge had a miserable childhood where he was always in a boarding school and his parents never visited him. If you were sent to a boarding school and felt your parents forgot you, would you be an angry adult? Scrooge in the Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a major character in the story in which he is not very nice to anybody because of his life happenings. When he appears in the story, he is greedy and doesn’t want to like anybody, he is a very unhappy man that only cares about himself. But at the end he kind of is clear that he was very childish and that he didn’t care about anyone else but himself so he decided he wanted to change his act. While he is with all the spirits, he goes from greedy and mean to clear of his mistakes, he wanted to be nice to everybody, and wanted to tell people that, by giving back to them in any way possible.

money to the poor. He thinks of them as idle and he states that if

1.Option 2: Scrooge acts like he hates people, the thought of Christmas, and does want nothing to do with anything.Acts very rude.Act 1 Scrooge use quotes to his nephew corresponding like."You are poor you cannot even celebrate anything, Durning the time Tiny Tim dies by the reason of his illness that he had.Scrooge is brokenhearted and miserable.He never took his eyes off of tiny time.Marley warns him about the three ghosts that are going to visit him.The first one will visit him at 1 and so will the so will the second.Last ghosts will visit him at midnight.Ghost names are the past, present and future.Marley tells scrooge that "to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance of hoping my procuring.When the three

Ebenezer Scrooge, was disrespectful to everyone around him, 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! How he hates Christmas! His feelings about Christmas are consistent until three ghosts show him that his way of thinking is wrong. On pages one and two, it says “External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather could chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon it’s purpose.” The author was saying nothing can change how he acts towards other people. Scrooge was a person who was always down, gloomy, and moody. For example on page one there is a description of him and it says, “ The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.” His wrinkled, aged, rough appearance reflects his inner feelings. According to the text, “Scrooge carried his own low temperature everywhere he went.” Scrooge’s demeanor was always low.

This week London has lost one of its finest, Ebenezer Scrooge. Aged 65 sadly passed away after a long hard battle with cancer on Wednesday, 20th of August 1856 at the Royal London Hospital alongside his nephew, Fred, and loyal house worker, Mrs. Dibler.