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Compare And Contrast A Christmas Carol

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A Christmas Carol By: Charles Dickens Comparative Literature: In the beginning the movie and the book are having the same plot and scene but as the story goes on it's like some part of the story was being departed from its original plot that based on the book. The scenes in the movie are being twisted just like to the descriptions of the Ghost of Christmas who’s visited Mr. Scrooge. One of the differences that I sighted from book to the movie is that the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come has a hand of skin while in the book the author describes the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is only a spirit or a skinless man. And another thing is in the movie, the part of the story of the nephew of Scrooge was not that given a full coverage of his story

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