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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

Following this bitter blow, the Ghost of Christmas Present leads Scrooge on a tour of two more families: that of his nephew and of his clerk. The vision of Scrooge’s clerk’s family – the Cratchits – paints an intricate example of the beauty of family. As Dickens explains, “They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty… But they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the times…” (page 54). The Cratchits possessed minimal earthly wealth, and even had an ill son, yet they displayed incredible joy! The joy, warmth, affection, and laughter surrounding the Cratchits’ Christmas celebration brought Scrooge to the realization that the “Christmas spirit” does not depend on any material possessions, or even on situations. Joy is a choice, and that choice is made easier when we are surrounded by the ones we love.

Scrooge began his transformation into a good man when the Ghost of Christmas present shows him the Cratchit household. Scrooge throughout this scene is presented with the consequences of his actions and how they affect those who are less fortunate than he. “Think of that. Bob had but fifteen bob a-week himself; he pocketed on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name; and yet the Ghost of

A natural tendency is for characters to change and develop throughout a story as it progresses. A character can develop from A kind personality to a angry personality. For instance how Scrooge changes from greedy and cruel to selfless in A Christmas Carol. When Scrooge is put through a series of test to see what life is like outside of his shell, his demenur on life changes. ALthough characters can also change in a negative way. Scrooge's gradual change in attitude from selfishness to selfless conveys the theme, the populace has the power to change their ways no matter how distasteful their actions once were.

He is a crippled boy who walks on crutches. Despite his condition Tim is always happy. Concerned, Scrooge asks if Tiny Tim will be alive in the future and the Spirit says it doesn’t look like he will. All gathered at a table, Mrs. Cratchit starts to speak poorly of Scrooge, but toasts to him for Bob’s sake. The spirit then shows him miners and lighthouse men who are happy about Christmas. At Fred’s house, Scrooge’s nephew, are laughing about how Scrooge called Christmas a humbug. Fred says he feels sorry for Scrooge and will keep asking him how he is doing despite that he always answers the same way. At this house Scrooge participates in the Christmas games and is very happy.

A Christmas Carol is about a man named Ebenezer Scrooge.Who had a lot of greed. He even called Christmas a “humbug”. Ebenezer Scrooge had more greed than any other man in England. He worked all year long even through Christmas, The most happiest time of year, but not for Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge had parter, Bob Cratchit, he paid him only 15 shillings a week. Cratchit had 5 children and one of his children had a crippled foot, and walked with a crutch. That Christmas the Cratchit family had a small turkey because of Scrooge's greed.

In the Christmas Carol scrooge has an employee Mr. Cratchet who is happy and joyful. Scrooge has a nephew who does the same thing every Christmas Day invites his uncle to go dine with him, but unsurprisingly Scrooge declines every year. The movie shows why he is full of sadness and that as a kid all his friends had left him and growing up he was poor but when he got his job he only cared about money instead of joyful times.

Scrooge’s clerk, Bob Cratchit had a clear view of the vexation clearly shown on Scrooge’s face as he snatched up a ruler with such vigour that the child who had begun to recite a Christmas carol frantically scrambled away. He had been looking through the key-hole of the counting-house. Bob Cratchit felt a small drop of pity for the youth but many a child had been warned of Scrooge’s frosty temper particularly upon Christmas Eve.

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.

A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens is a novel that is intended to teach its reader the importance of treating each other other the way one would wish to treat you. There are many examples throughout the whole book that scrooge doesn’t treat people the way he wants to be treated. For instance, scrooge also had always hated christmas and the people who celebrated christmas. For example in the text he was talking to his nephew. “Then I live in such a world of fools as this Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas. 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? If I

In the story A Christmas Carol it all began in London on a foggy day. Ebenezer was working conscientiously in his counting house. He had an old partner Jacob Marley who died 7 years ago. He had a poor minuscule clerk named Bob Crachit. It was cold on this day and scrooge being a scrooge was acting cheap and didn’t want to buy no more lumps of coal. Scrooge was invited to dinner by his nephew but he rushed his nephew out the office. His clerk Mr. Crachit was asking scrooge for the day off and of course scrooge gave him trouble but ended up letting him take the day off. So scrooge closes shop and goes home

The story “A Christmas Carol” is the story of a man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who despises Christmas and everything it stands for. The story has various cause and effect scenarios in which Scrooge eventually sees the error of his ways and comes to terms with the fact that whatever made him hate Christmas to begin with is not worth hating now. Scrooge was a very cruel man throughout a majority of the story, but as the story went on, things began to change. For starters, his reason for not liking the Christmas season was due to the fact that his friend/business partner, Jacob Marley, had died on that day seven years prior, amongst other things.

Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character in the story “ A Christmas Carol” and he is not the nicest person either. He is an old man who owns a shop previously owned by his partner Marley, and after Marley’s death Scrooge consequently became a bitter person to most things, including normal emotions like happiness and joy, so needless to say he became angry and lonely. He also hates holidays but especially Christmas so when his nephew comes in talking about how great Christmas is Scrooge insults the holiday and his nephews spouse for getting married because they fell in love. When he goes home and looks through his door peephole and sees Marley consequently he then looks away and sees nothing. He is still skeptical upon entering the house. He searches

On one of the pages of A Christmas Carol it expresses, ¨ ´no. I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now.´ ¨ (Curtis, 46). The author here is trying to express to us through Scrooge's words that he regrets what he did to his clerk and wants to apologize to Bob Cratchit, showing that a dent has been made to start the reforming of Scrooge’s character. Another segment of the story states, ¨Uncle Scrooge had imperceptibly become so gay and light of heart, that he would have pledged the unconscious company in return, and thanked them in an inaudible speech...¨ (Curtis, 84). This scene shows Scrooge wishing to be able to thank Fred and his family for saying “merry christmas and happy new year” even though Scrooge wasn’t there; which means that Fred and his family is thinking of Scrooge. Clearly in this part of the book, Scrooge is in a way “reforming” and beginning to change from his Grinch-like attitude to thankful and

One of the many subjects all societies struggle with - and will continue to struggle with for the foreseeable future - is the dispute over whether Heaven and Hell actually exist and what those popular ideologies entail. While the better part of people agree that Heaven is simply a pleasant setting for everyone, Hell seems to have considerably more variations of suffering depending on how it’s portrayed by the media. In most TV shows, movies, and books, we see torture and raging flames and unending physical agony. In Dante’s epic poetry, “Inferno”, souls suffer based solely on what they did in life with the most severe punishment possible taking place in a freezing cold atmosphere. But in Jean-Paul Sartre’s play, “No Exit”, the main theme of