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    really talked to Ebenezer Scrooge but they could have told that he wasn’t the nicest person in the neighborhood. He had his ups and downs along the way. Scrooge was visited by three ghosts during different hours of different days. The ghost of christmas past,present, and future. These three ghosts had a very big impact on scrooge’s life. But at the end, the ghost of christmas future had the biggest impact. Even though future didn’t talk, he only pointed to things, he showed scrooge the darkest future anyone

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    If you ever need to find a characterization for Scrooge you can, you can easily know a characterization for Ebenezer Scrooge. Ebenezer Scrooge, the antagonists of A Christmas Carol by Jim Carrey, is mean and greedy. Mean is a trait that grows with Scrooge childhood as he moves on with his life. Readers can discover that Scrooge’s meanness is a trait that grows and as he gets older and is still lonely. Finally, even Scrooge does not notice how mean he is, and how greedy he is to people. Ebenezer’s

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    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

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    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

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    In Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is visited by Three Spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. In Stave IV Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, and the spirit shows him a scene of Scrooge in the future. In this stave, Scrooge gets severely frightened at what his future might hold. The Ghost shows him is what will happen in Scrooge's future if he stays the way that he was at the beginning of the

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    life affects other people. Through the main character Ebenezer Scrooge we see how he affects other citizens of England. Scrooge at first affects everyone negatively but he starts to change and affect them positively. There are many examples of this but the best example of this is the Cratchit family. The Cratchit family are a poor family relying on the small salary of Bob Cratchit. Bob Cratchit works for Scrooge as a clerk, and Scrooge being greedy as it says in the quote “ No steel had ever struck

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    Scrooge is a man with set goals of spending no money on anyone or anything. He is a grouchy old man that nobody likes besides his nephew. It is Christmas Eve, and Scrooge is at his business.a few people come by to business. One of these people is Fred scrooge's nephew,but fred invites to have dinner with his family. Then two businessmen come in who are collecting money for charity, but again Scrooge rejected to give the gentlemen anything. After the men had left, Bob asks Scrooge to take Christmas

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    will improve you as a person. The cause may not be a good but the effect you get in return will change you for the better.. In “A Christmas Carol” Scrooge improved his life by changing in many ways. Scrooge changed in many different ways. One way Scrooge changed was by being giving.When the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future visited Scrooge he was a sting man. He gave his workers as little as he could and he didn't give anything to charity. After the spirits visited him he was a giving

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    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

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    more about money, and work than having relationships with others. In the novel, Scrooge is a man that means business, he only focuses on money and work and doesn’t take the time to have relationships with others like he should. There are many examples that Scrooge values money more than relationships in the novel “A Christmas Carol,” but I am only going to talk about some of them. In the novel, it’s noticeable that Scrooge is selfish and that his business is about making money and not to worry about

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