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    occurring around Britain. While Dickens was a young man, he suffered from poverty along with his mother and father. His father was imprisoned for dept and Charles wanted to become a social reformer. Dickens used these problems as themes for his book ‘A Christmas Carol'. These themes involve poverty, pollution and a changing of ways. Dickens used Scrooge, the main character in the book at first to show how current society was at the time and then at the end, after the visits from the three ghosts, how the

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    Dickens' Use of the Supernatural in A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol is built upon numerous contrasts: rich and poor, family and loneliness, generosity and miserliness, affection and cruelty, past, present and future. Most of these contrasting forces are brought to light within the character of Scrooge himself. The compulsive, lonely, miserly man, who eats his abstemious meals in the shadows, emerges from his cold-heartedness into a generous, fun loving, warm and

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    Title: Change in A Christmas carol Change can either be good or bad depending on what the change is. In Scrooge And Marley: A Christmas carol, Scrooge is sent three ghosts from Jacob Marley that helps him change. After being reformed by the spirits of Christmas Scrooge becomes friendly, nice, generous, considerate, and an all around great person. First, The Ghost of Christmas Present retaught Scrooge the generosity and respect he had to know long ago. The spirit had shown Scrooge when his old boss

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    In the beginning of the book, “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold, selfish and greedy man. He owns a business and is rich, but never does anything good with his money and keeps it to himself. He thinks of Christmas as a useless holiday and does not care to talk or smile to anybody he sees. However, as the spirits of the past, present and future visit him, Scrooge becomes much kinder and wants to become a better person. He learns to care for others and becomes more engaged

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    and made him not like Christmas. But the Ghost of Christmas past, Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Future changed how Scrooge acted and what he does. The Christmas Carol displays The Importance of memory when the 3 ghost came to show scrooge's past, present, and future. First of all, the Spirit of Christmas past showed what happened before on Christmas in scrooge's life. One day on Christmas scrooge's girlfriend belle broke up with him on Christmas day. Another, way is when

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    Scrooge's Change in A Christmas Carol Dickens combines a description of hardships faced by the poor with a heart-rending sentimental celebration of the Christmas season. The novel contains dramatic and comic element as well as a deep felt moral theme. In the beginning of the novel Ebenezer Scrooge is portrayed as a hardhearted and unsociable man. However at the end of the novel we see dramatic changes in him as a trio of ghostly visitations causes a complete change

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    A Change of Heart In the book, A Christmas Carol, the author, Charles Dickens, explains an old man who is hateful, rude, cold-hearted, and very covetous named Ebenezer Scrooge. In the story, Scrooge gets offered the opportunity of a life-time; to change his attitude and behavior and become a better person. He gets a second chance at life and he takes that chance. The cruelest man became the kindest and it was all because of four ghosts. Although the four spirits that haunted Scrooge had some kind

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    ghost influenced Scrooge to change the most? The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come definitely helps Ebeneezer Scrooge the most to become a better man. In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, he starts out as a grumpy old man that hates Christmas. Three ghosts visit and show him his Christmas past, present, and future, influencing him to change. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come helped him change in many different ways. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come showed him the perfect scenes to convince him

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    Scrooge in A Christmas Carol

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    Thereof In a time in which the significance of Christmas gradually started to change, Charles Dickens, in accordance with these changes, wrote a Christmas tale: A Christmas Carol. The novella was published six days in advance of the Christmas celebrations of 1843; it was sold out three days later. Although a socially engaged narrative, Dickens’ work is not occupied with trivialities such as the introduction of Christmas cards; instead A Christmas Carol focuses on the transforming beliefs and values

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    2, 2017, I attended A Christmas Carol: The Musical, a production featured in the Amaturo Theater at Broward Center for the Performing Arts. A Christmas Carol is about an elder man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who despises Christmas. Scrooge is a wealthy man infatuated with the idea of money, which makes him a very stingy, greedy, selfish, and egotistic human-being. Working as a banker, Scrooge has an employee named Bob Cratchit, who works long hours, for very little pay. On Christmas eve, Cratchit gives hints

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