A Christmas Carol: Play Vs. Movie

This is what Scrooge sees the spirit as and shows that his state of confinement is shown by his clothes. The Spirit then takes Scrooge to the Cratchit's Christmas dinner and shows him what it is like to enjoy a Christmas meal with friends and family. Once Scrooge asks if Tiny Tim will live the spirit says “‘I see a vacant seat’ replied the Ghost, ‘in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.” Scrooge then tells the spirit that he wishes the poor innocent child to be spared and in doing so using

The Change of Scrooge “Feelings change, memories don’t.” Joel Alexander After visits from three ghosts, The Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Future, Ebenezer Scrooge, the protagonist in the novella, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is changed for the better. Each ghost makes an impact on him in several ways. The Ghost of Christmas Past shows Scrooge influential scenes from his younger days.

In this stave, the ghost of Christmas Present visits him and shows him the wealthy and the poor on Christmas Day. The first place that he takes him to is Bob Cratchit 's house. It shows Bob and his family having Christmas dinner. He is confused because he doesn’t understand how people can be poor but happy even though they have nothing. Next, he goes to his nephew’s house and it shows them playing a game and having fun.

In the story A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens there is this mean old man named Scrooge that hated everyone, his soul is black as the suit he wears in the movie. It seems as if he has lost his Christmas spirit. To help Scrooge retrieve his spirit back his deceased friend,and business partner Jacob Marley alerted Scrooge that three spirits past,present,and future would visit him all at different times. Late that night as the rain was pouring down,and the lightning was cracking Scrooge was sitting in his chair with such stillness you could hear a pin drop boom! boom!

At the beginning, one of the few phrases Scrooge would say was, “Good afternoon!”, which he used to dismiss a conversation he deemed “unworthwhile”. Later in the book, when the Ghost of Christmas Present visits Scrooge, he sees the Christmas party occurring at Fred’s house, where he previously refused to go. Seeing the party, Scrooge actually got excited and thought it fun. This opens his heart to be more social and later in the book, he is depicted starting conversations and shouting in the street. “A merry Christmas to everybody!

is money. In the past, his fiancé left him because she felt as if money had taken her place in Scrooge’s heart. Scrooge does not go to parties, give gifts, or have dinner with his family. Scrooge and I have experienced different Christmases from each other, but if looked at closely, there are some similarities. The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge into the past to relive some of his forgotten Christmases.

In the play, they describe Scrooge as a nasty and ugly old man. “The cold within him freezes his old features, nips his pointed, shriveled his cheek, stiffens his gait; makes his eyes red, his thin lip blue; and speaks shrewdly in his grating voice. ”(Charles Dickens 1) In the movie, Scrooge looks like an ordinary old man. In the movie, Scrooge’s apprentice takes his crippled son Tiny Tim to watch the children play.

Afterwards, Greg's mom tells him to donate a toy at the police station. On his way back he looks for the envelope of money he requested in the church driveway. Greg ends up shuffling all the snow out of the driveway and appears in the newspaper as a "Do-Gooder." This how Greg deals with the police and being trapped with his family in the house.

Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian lyricist, and novelist, once acknowledged, “Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.” Most people these days rely on the past to predict the future. Unfortunately, some people rely on the present as well. Regrettably, in the play, A Christmas Carol, the main character, Scrooge, a self-centered man, made regretful decisions in his past which affected his present. Scrooge shows many ways that he is self-centered, for example, in the past Scrooge was greedy and had a love for money.

How many ghost does it take to change someone’s ways? Ebenezer Scrooge in the ‘Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens, four ghost come to him to try to change his ways to become a happy, caring and nice man instead of the rude and greedy man he is now. Scrooge gets visited Jacob Marley, his old business partner seven years ago, then by three more ghosts; the past, future and the present Christmas Ghosts. With each visit of the ghosts, Scrooge shows different emotions with fear and is soon to be changed into a better jolly man than he was before and especially around Christmas time and throughout the days and years as long as he lives. Throughout the story, Scrooge’s character shows how fear of the future coming changes him to a better man.

A mean-spirited, miserly old man named Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his counting-house on a frigid Christmas Eve. His clerk, Bob Cratchit, shivers in the anteroom because Scrooge refuses to spend money on heating coals for a fire. Scrooge 's nephew, Fred, pays his uncle a visit and invites him to his annual Christmas party. Two portly gentlemen also drop by and ask Scrooge for a contribution to their charity. Scrooge reacts to the holiday visitors with bitterness and venom, spitting out an angry "Bah! Humbug!"

Boo even covers Scout with a blanket on a cold night while Miss Maudie’s house burned down. Boo was so quiet that Scout never realizes he covered her shoulders with the blanket until she gets home. After all the children’s attempt to drag Boo Radley from his house, he saves them from Bob

At the start of the book the Grinch is a grumpy old man that got bullied when he was a child in school around Christmas time and decided to run away and is live up in te h snowy mountains with his dog Max Whoville and despises Christmas and joy. The Grinch decides that on Christmas Eve he will sneak into everybody 's house and steal their Christmas trees and their gifted presents. While hes busy ruining everyone 's holiday he runs into Cindy Lou, the daughter of one the citizens that live in Whoville who makes him figure out that Christmas is something much more important than foiled wrapped gifts and giant trees, and that its about spending time with your family and people you love, and from that day on the Grinch 's tiny heart grew three

Scrooge in "The Christmas Carol" shows how much he hates Christmas, and everyone he works with to change to a happy person with the help of others. Scrooge emphasizes, "What a fine day fellow... An Intelligent boy, a remarkable boy. " This is a critical part of this novel because this shows Scrooge overcame his dislike of Christmas and his entire disliking of people. Instead of rudely gesturing to people, he is now starting to act nicer, and more mature.

If Scrooge and other stingy people change, they can change their fates and how they can stop their inevitable deaths. Dickens was interesting in changing Victorian England in many ways, including the attitude of the rich towards the