How Does Scrooge Change In A Christmas Carol

What is Tiny Tim's role in this novella? Explain. Why does Scrooge seem to care about him?

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a moral tale that depicts the protagonist’s Ebenezer Scrooge’s moral journey from selfishness to redemption. It can be seen that his new found way of life is derived from the desire to be a good man of the community and to assist others such as Tiny Tim. The idea of Scrooge’s transformation not being selfish can also be seen in his aspiration to contribute to the wider community that suffers from a poverty stricken way of life. In addition to this, Scrooge also reforms his way of life in order to feel love and care from family, which satisfied his nephew Fred aswell as himself. However, this selflessness is only to an

“‘I’ll send it to Bob Cratchit’s!’ ,whispered Scrooge rubbing his hands and splitting a laugh. ‘He shan’t know who sends it. It’s twice the size of Tiny Tim.’ (Dickens 77)

Scrooge sees Tiny Tim, Bob's crippled, small child, he sees that Bob loves Tiny Tim, and he dreads he might be taken away from him. Scrooge asks the spirit if Tiny Tim will live, but the spirit tells him if the future remains unaffected the child will die. Scrooge begs that Tiny Tim be spared, but the ghost replies, "If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population" (Dickens Line 834-835). Scrooge recognized what the spirit had told him, Scrooge had told the charity men this when they told him people would rather die than go to the workhouses or prisons. Scrooge has remorse about saying this now as he watched Tiny Tim suffer in his condition. He wants to help him, and now that he sees an example of how the surplus population lives he is shameful for the way he

The next part following that one talks about “The Ghost Of Christmas Present” visiting Scrooge in his dim, lonely, old house. This ghost shows him a shadow about a family at their Christmas dinner. Based on what I read, at this family dinner, they do talk about Scrooge, but they don’t talk about how happy and cheerful he is, in fact, they talk about the complete opposite. Their is a little boy that goes by the name Tiny Tim in this shadow, and Scrooge gets worried about the child and asks the spirit if he will live and in the text it states that the spirit responds with “ I see a vacant seat, in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die”, the empty chair is Scrooge’s. Of course that shadow had a huge impact on Scrooge, but that’s not the only thing that got to him that night. The text stated that Scrooge noticed that as the night went on, the spirit seemed to grow older, so Scrooge says“ Are spirits’ lives so short?”, he responded with “ My life upon this globe, is very brief, it ends

By this part in the novel, dickens introduced the next Ghost, the Ghost of Christmas Present. The ghost of Christmas present takes Scrooge to his clerk`s house. Here he witness the unfortunate conditions of their Christmas, however, it doesn’t appear to be so unfortunate at all; although Scrooge notices how Tiny Tim is crippled and at deaths door. He is moved by this sight, and that of his clerk’s family. He had never imagined their lives to be like this before; however it’s astonishing to him, that although extremely poor, they are full of joy and happiness. He notices the simple pleasures of family life as well. Furthermore something strange begins to happen, he sympathises with Tiny Time, who Scrooge understands will die without financial help. Dickens has showed us how scrooge is changing and learning to sympathise, a “skill” he previously didn’t have. "Spirit," said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, "tell me if Tiny Tim will live." ' Dickens once more showing us scrooges new found affections. Additionally when the Spirit predicts “an empty chair if things do not change”, Scrooge is quite

Scrooge is ignorant to the fact that Christmas is about being with family. As he goes around with the spirit he sees Bob Cratchit’s family and their small goose, but they are happy nun the less. He then goes it see his nephew Fred at his house with his guests and wife playing a game. He is ignorant to the fact that they all have found joy in each other’s company. As he is usually alone on Christmas.

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, is about a selfish and grouchy man named Ebenezer Scrooge, who dislikes Christmas and charity. In order to fix his undesirable qualities, Scrooge is visited by three spirits, the Spirit of Christmas Past, the Spirit of Christmas Present, and the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come. These three spirits use their differences and similarities to teach Scrooge lessons that would change his egocentric ways. The first Spirit that visits Scrooge is the Spirit of Christmas Past, a peaceful, wise, and kind character.

How does Tiny Tim Affect Scrooge? The Christmas Carol is a story, which can be called a novella. Charles Dickens wrote this in 1843 and it soon became a very famous book. The character that I will be looking at who changes in this novel is Scrooge. Ebenezer Scrooge is known as a very selfish, stingy and cruel man. Scrooge runs his own business that provides him with lots of wealth but it's his heart that never shows any goodness. His former business partner was Jacob Marley who died seven years ago in the novella. So to start of Scrooge's reclamation from a misanthropist to a philanthropist he meets his former business partner Jacob Marley's spirit. Marley was a character who had a heart just like Scrooge, which is probably why they liked working together, and they were very successful. However, this time Marley appears as a very different character his spirit has a frightening appearance. He tries to help Scrooge by leading him in the right direction to redemption.

Finally, Scrooge demonstrates paying it forward by allowing people into his life. As Scrooge was walking towards Fred’s house “He passed the door a dozen times, before he had the courage to go up and knock. Bu he made a dash, and did it:” (Dickens 48). Scrooge goes to his nephew’s house because he realized that people in his life that were trying to reach out to him were trying to help him become better, so Scrooge allows the people into his life to better himself.

In scene 3, the ghost took Scrooge to Cratchit’s house during present time. Scrooge saw one of Cratchits sons, Tiny Tim, was dying and there wasn’t much they could do to save him. This memory was important because Scrooge became caring and cared about tiny time because Scrooge felt bad for him. Scrooge showed sympathy for Tiny Tim “Spirit, tell me if Tiny Tim will live.” Scrooge says with concern. This shows that Scrooge cares for more than just himself and he has changed. After being visited by the ghost of Christmas present Scrooge became

Scrooge said once when he was a young man that when owned his own firm that he would treat his apprentices as he was treated,but he never did since that would waste money on something other than himself for good reason. Yet, the refreshment of his mind made him rethink his choice and gave him the thought of treating his clerk Cratchit better for reasons other than Tiny Tim’s health condition, but out of the good of his dark, broken, cold, mending heart. Which after undergoing this whole process is ready to release all the sorrow and feelings it has held back.So Scrooge now knowing what his has in store for him he wakes and spares no time in starting to make his mends as soon as he wakes up. Starting with most important of all Tiny Tim then, the poor, then his nephew. Doing all of this without hesitation or doubt and gave away money with simple

First, Present takes him to his employee’s house where Scrooge learns how poor and sorrowful his employee, Bob Cratchit, is. Their family is struggling and Tiny Tim, the youngest member of the Cratchit family, is crippled. Unfortunately for Tiny Tim, death may be coming very soon, but he does not care. He is very optimistic and loves everyone by saying, “God bless us everyone,” (704). Next, Present shows Scrooge his nephew’s house and how everyone dislikes him, yet his nephew still toasts to his life. Once he does so his wife seems astonished as she says, “A toast to him?” (709). Soon the Ghost of Christmas Present deliquesces and disappears.

Present taught of how much he missed by avoiding christmas. “No no kind spirit say he will be spared” ( Dickens p.667 ) This quote speaks of how much Scrooge actually cares about people that anyone can change and he saw how happy the cratchit family was even though they were very poor and realizing instead of being greedy he can have fun on christmas instead of putting business before fun . Since seeing crippled tiny tim and how sick he is sad and realizing how much he can raise bob cratchit's so tiny tim can get better and visit him before he goes and makes it the best christmas for tiny tim and

Charles Dickens’s novel A Christmas Carol represents the outcome of greediness. Themes in this story were Themes in story were guilt and innocence. The protagonist of the novel is Ebenezer Scrooge who possibly Dickens’ most well-known character. Scrooge portrays greed which is what his name associates with nowadays and Charles Dickens’s uses him to represent the main theme in this novel which is in fact greed. Scrooge’s stingy ways effected not only himself but everyone around him for instance his poorly paid clerk Bob Cratchit and Cratchit’s son Tiny Tim who is handicap. Since Scrooge won’t help Bob Cratchit he can’t afford to pay for Tiny Tim’s surgery. Dickens described Scrooge as a “…squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!” Scrooge was somebody who treasured money to the highest extent. He was the kind of person who didn’t value the meaning of family. He disrespected mostly everybody he came into contact with. Basically, if it didn’t include money he wasn’t concerned about. Money was his happiness not love or family. He really didn’t like people especially the poor and definitely wouldn’t consider giving money to the carol singers. Scrooge not only signified greed but also the way that society mistreated and rejected the poor. Scrooge made remarks that poor people should die and decrease the