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Charles Dickens How The Grinch Stole Christmas

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2. Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is the epitome of a classic Christmas story. The transformation we see in Scrooge is similar to the famous children’s book How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss. A Christmas Carol emphasizes one central theme that is important to Christmas: compassion and forgiveness. In the beginning of the novel, Scrooge is the exact opposite of everything Christmas exemplifies: “Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner… He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas” (Dickens 6-7). Throughout the journey of the novel, Dickens

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