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What Does Stave I Scrooge Mean

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In stave I Scrooge is a grumpy old man and he thinks his “business” is about making money. Toward the end of the novel he starts to change his mind about “business” and starts to be a more jolly and a better man. Dickens helps readers understand that being human means that you should take care of others, by showing Scrooge taking care of the Cratchit family and being charitable after he learns his lesson. In stave I scrooge thinks that the definition of man’s “business” is money. I know this because when Scrooge was talking to Marley he said “but you were always a good man of business.”(23) This shows that Scrooge thinks that business is not helping other people but, it is making money. To further support this claim on page 10 when Scrooge

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