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    The show I decided to attend was A Christmas Carol, which I had never seen before. I went with my father on Wednesday, November 15th to the Guthrie Theater, and I have also never been to a show at this theater. I had heard that the building was recently redone and it was beautiful. Everything inside was very elegant looking and I felt completely underdressed. The Wurtele Thrust Stage where the show was put on was a very cozy little room but had great visibility from every section. We sat very close

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    wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843. This short novel has a Christmas theme and has been popular since it was first published. This moral story is about an old man called Scrooge who hates Christmas and is mean to everyone, but he is transformed. The lessons he learns are as much for the reader to benefit from as Scrooge. His transformation is the key event in the novel and the reader clearly sees Scrooge before and after his experiences. This process will now be explored more fully. 'A Christmas Carol'

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    A Christmas Carol Discussion By Kalana A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a story about a man who is stingy, rude and solitary. His name is Scrooge, and he gets taught many lessons. Scrooge comes out a changed man who is optimistic and happy. The lessons he gets taught is not only for him but also for Dickens' readers. Throughout this text, there many situations where usual readers can relate to. In other parts of the text, there are moments that are rare and have a massive impact on Scrooge's

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    Each ghost marks an important step in Scrooge’s journey towards being a better person. Explain In Dickens five stave novella each ghost in A Christmas Carol contributes to the final redemption of his journey to becoming a better person. The ghosts take Scrooge on a journey, physically, taking him to visit important aspects of his past, present and future and these journeys metaphorically empathy enlightenment that he needs to change into a more humane person. The five staves outline how he grows

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    Charles Dickens, who wrote A Christmas Carol, centered the monumental novella around Ebenezer Scrooge, a penny-pinching and avaricious moneylender. In order for Scrooge to change his fate, he must maintain the Christmas Spirit all year long. Throughout the story, three pansophical specters show Scrooge multiple scenes from his existence, hoping that he gains knowledge and changes before he ends up like the rest of the phantoms. The Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come assist Scrooge

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    Charles Dickens’s main character in “A Christmas Carol”. This play is about the story of a man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who was greedy, loved money, and had a heart that was hardened toward Christmas. Charles Dickens wrote this story to help expose the suffering of the poor and to convince readers that conditions need to be corrected. Through the visitations of three spirits, Scrooge learned why he had become greedy, how much he had missed out on by avoiding Christmas, and that he was capable of becoming

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    Have you read the novel The Christmas Carol? It's about the poverty of people in Britain. Charles Dickens, the author of the novel, wrote it because he wanted people to stop denying the poor and help them. A lot of adaptations has been made for his novel and one of them is also called, The Christmas Carol. When Charles Dickens was younger he was poor, a couple times in his life and that had scared him forever, he wanted to bring more awareness to the working and lower class.  A lot of people died

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    Christmas is the time of year where everyone seems to be happy no matter what is going on currently in the world around them. But not for Ebenezer Scrooge. Everyone makes mistakes, but some that Scrooge had made, made a big impact on his life. Because of his lack to spread kindness and charity, Scrooge’s consequences were three lovely visits from the Spirit of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come that made Scrooge reflect on his previous decisions so he can have an even greater future. When Scrooge’s

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    Charles Dickens own experiences of growing up in poverty in Victorian Era London, are likely to have pushed him to pursue the themes in his novel A Christmas Carol. His father was sent to prison for not paying his debts, which left Dickens the job of producing the family income at the age of 12, giving him a firsthand view of poverty and the struggles that come with it. These events seemingly effected Dickens greatly, and Dickens novels were likely his form of charitable work, as the messages scribed

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    The film “The Christmas Carol” and the film “A Divas Christmas Carol” share the same timeless theme but because of the different times the story took place it is totally distinctive. The Christmas Carol setting took place in a poor section of London England, during the Industrial Revolution. In the 18th hundreds poverty played a big role in that time period. The rural and urban poor areas were unsanitary and there were overcrowded housing, low wages, insecure employment, and not very good diets.

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