A Christmas Carol

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 will live in the Past, the Present,

and the Future.

""Can you sit down?" asked Scrooge, looking doubtfully

at him. The Spirit then points to two other men for him to go and listen to. To make this have more impact, the writer uses short sentences. When he has to go and look the a gravestone that the spirit has pointed out to him, he finally realises what has happened, and that all the things that were stolen belonged to him, and that if he does not change then this it what he will end up like. Some of the things that the ghost shows him are, his old school, his sister and father, but the main thing that evokes Scrooge’s emotions is when he sees Belle. This ghost shows him the house of Bob Crachit, and how the poor can spend Christmas and be happy. This ghost is to show Scrooge what all he has lost in the process of becoming rich. 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.

"Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown

me by an altered life?"…"I will honour Christmas in my heart,

and try to keep it all the year.

The first step in Scrooge’s transformation, is the arrival of the ghost of his old business partner, Marley. "

No sooner has Scrooge said this than he is suddenly in the room of the dead man, but he refuses to look at him and asks to be taken to see someone who feels emotion for this man’s death, and is taken to the Crachit’s home.

He has the power to render us happy or unhappy;….

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Approximate Word count = 1755
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

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