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A Comparison Of Scrooge And Charles Dickens

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On the other hand, Scrooge and Charles Dickens are very different from each other. For example, Charles Dickens was very sympathetic with the lower classes and “requested that one of the readings be reserved for working people and that they be charged only a small admittance fee,” (Warren 118). This is all while Scrooge is is telling the portly men the poor should go in prisons and workhouses. He also tells them that “If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population,” (Dickens 10). Another difference is that Dickens loved to interact with people. For instance he would walk through the poorer parts of London despite have plenty of money. This is opposed to Scrooge shooing away carolers and wishing the portly

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