A Christmas Carol
Show how the novelist engages your interest in the character and explain the nature and process of his development.In the novel "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, the main character, Scrooge, develops over the course of meeting four ghosts in the night. At the start of the novel he is an old miser who earns lots of money but has nothing to show for it. He is also never nice to anyone, and never gives any of his money away. But by the end if the novel he has made a complete transformation.At the beginning of "A Christmas Carol" Scrooge is incredibly mean and thinks that Christmas is a "Humbug", and just a time when you find "yourself a year older and not an hour richer", and that anyone who says Merry Christmas should be "boiled with his own pudding". Charles Dickens shows just how mean he is by having Scrooge's nephew, Fred, at the other end of the scale. However horrible his uncle is to him, Fred is always unfailingly nice to him, and trying to make him see the wonder of Christmas and how you don't need money to enjoy it. "Though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!" (p 15)
"I don't mind going if a lunch is provided," observed the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose. This ghost is to show Scrooge what all he has lost in the process of becoming rich. "bit of beef" and "gravy than of grave". "By repeating the word "good" it shows you just how much Scrooge's character has changed from the beginning of the book. When he gets there he finds out that Tiny Tim has died. To bring the story to an end the novelist uses repetition, "He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man as the good old City knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough in the good old world. "Spirit", said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, "tell me if Tiny Tim will live. "Why! Is it not? He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money. Another thing that the ghost does is that it softens Scrooge's tough outer shell by taking him to see Fezziwig, the man who took Scrooge in to be an apprentice, by saying the sort of things that Scrooge would say in a situation like that.
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