One out of every seven people in America live under the poverty line. Even though the Christmas Carol is fictional novella it still illustrates examples of poverty, its effects and what can be done to stop it. Throughout the Christmas Carol different characters who either live in poverty, or are ignorant of it completely. This is a Scenario is applicable to real life. Many people believe that poverty is the fault or problem of those afflicted by it.
Scrooge’s changes The story A Christmas Carol was written by Charles Dickens. In the book A Christmas Carol Scrooge was mean at the beginning but as the book kept going he was visited by 3 ghost and by the end Scrooge is no longer mean to people. In stave 1 Scrooge rejected the poorly men for donations and after he did that he felt good about it.
In the beginning of “A Christmas Carol” Scrooge is very hateful. He had many different people and those different people saw him in many different ways. I think the main people who saw him differently are Marley, Bob, and his nephew. Marley was Scrooge’s business partner. In the story, he died.
In the beginning of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge’s view on Christmas is negative and he is characterized as being unsympathetic, uncharitable, grouchy. To begin, there are three different spirits who visit Scrooge at various times in the night. The spirits help make Scrooge realize the consequences of his actions and they change Scrooge's view on Christmas. For example, Scrooge is visited by the Spirit of Christmas Past who shows him his childhood and the actions that made him who he is now. As Scrooge observes the past he is filled with regret and wants to re-choose to do things.
Camlyn Takahashi “A Christmas Carol” Essay In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens writes about Ebenezer Scrooge, a grouchy old man who only cares about money. He never felt empathy towards others, and didn’t treat them well. Throughout the story, Ebenezer learns there are consequences for his poor character. Greed and Indifference come at a cost as we see for Scrooge; it cost him in his personal life, in his professional life, and in society as a whole.
Throughout A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge is a vile and selfish character. He distrusts the poor and despises Christmas with all of his heart. Until The Ghost of Christmas Past appears to him. The Ghost of Christmas Past begins to expose Scrooge's true selfishness and insistence on keeping everything for himself as he undergoes his metamorphosis. After the change, Scrooge wants to live a better life.
In these stories, it seems that what the characters truly find valuable always turns out to be something other than money and riches. In Tuck Everlasting what Winnie found valuable in the beginning to her was freedom and just wanted to get out of her house and yard, but through most of the story and by the end she truly found valuable was the friends she had made during her journey and her home, and even though in this story many people would find the immortality that her friends had to be the most valuable thing in the universe, she saw them as valuable friends than immortal people. In A Christmas Carol Scrooge first saw money to be wealthy, but later in the story he saw that wealth to him was kindness and making up for what he had done in
In the first stave of Charles Dickens’ story, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge didn’t have much enthusiasm for Christmas. He didn't like people mentioning it and curse the ones who did. He found no reason to be merry and celebrate. But, after being visited by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley, and the three spirits of Christmas, Scrooge becomes a changed man. To the Ghost of Christmas Future, he makes a promise that he will honor Christmas whole heartedly and will try to be better all year round.
In the dramatized version of A Christmas Carol by Frederick Gaines, based on the novella written by Charles Dickens, The Second Spirit metaphorically refers to Scrooge as, “An insect on a leaf pronouncing that there is more to life among his hungry brothers in the dust”(234). In his home, Scrooge is able to eat whatever his heart desires, while others go hungry. Broad and cozy, Scrooge’s home shelters him from the icy climate. Owning a business, Scrooge has an employee at his feet because of his high rank in society. Like an insect on a leaf, Scrooge has access to an abundance of food, lives in a cozy home, and enjoys a high status in society.
With Scrooge's attitude and nature, he was extremely selfish, miserly, and callous at the start of the novel. However, the spirits are able to change him into a better man, or more like convince him to become better himself. The way that they did this is that they showed him various scenes of Christmas, but sometimes said or showed him things that were a result of his former nature, such as when the Ghost of Christmas says ‘“[...] If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. ”’(p.53) to remind Scrooge of how earlier he had dismissed the businessmen collecting donations despite his current wish for Tiny Tim to live.
At first when reading the book, you can feel all that melancholy feeling seeing as Dickens is describing Scrooge. Scrooge represents or stands for greed and the total opposite of Christmas spirit. Christmas is supposed to be cheerful and and about having a good time with family and other celebrations, but when Dickens shows a true part of Scrooge's by having said by him “every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!” It shows that he is not a guy to share warmth with any human being.
Throughtout the extract and the novel Scrooge undergoes many changes which are evident within the whole of the text. Charles Dickens states that Scrooge was ‘ tight- fisted at the grindstone’, which is done by Charles Dickens to convey Scrooge’s bitterness as being tight-fisted is usually a display of anger. This conveys the character of Scrooge from the beginning of the text in order to illustrate how long Scrooge has been a bitter character as Charles Dickens does this in order to imply that Scrooge has been quite a angered character for a large period of time, thus presenting Scrooge to be a agitated man. We then see a use of a long list of verbs used to emphasise Scrooge’s horrid attitude towards life as he is stated to be a ‘ covetous old sinner’, which is done to highlight Scrooge’s negative attitude, furthermore the word ‘sinner’ gives us impression that Scrooge is perhaps quite a ungenrous character as within the times Charles Dickens wrote this, many people would have been Christian and to be a ‘sinner’ you would be quite unkind to others( which goes against God). Thus, Charles Dickens is able to truly amplify this sense of bitterness through
“Change is inevitable but growth optional,” is a quote from John Maxwell about how over time everyone changes although growth from old ways is only a conscious decision. I connect this quote to The Christmas carol by Charles Dickens, specifically the character Scrooge due to his change throughout this story. In the story, The Christmas carol Scroogeembarks on a journey with four ghosts: Marley, Past, Present, and Future. They teach ScroogeLessons about his personality and how he needs to be much less greedy and prideful and general improvement to himself as a person. Future’s ghost pushed him the most, making him the superior spirit.
At the beginning of A Christmas Carol,Scrooge is mean,selfish,and greedy. He is mean, because on pg.9, he never donates to the poor,and he always yells at little kids. Scrooge is also selfish because on pg.12, he never pays a day wages for no work. They say “it's a poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of december!”Also,another word is he is greedy,on pg.17, says he is caustic and cold as ever and never gave anything to anyone. He said “what do you want with me.
Ebenezer Scrooge is a bitter old miser, and miserable, Scrooge dislikes things like happiness, generosity, and Christmas, until three of Ghosts shows him the error of his ways. Scrooge keeps his office very cold, the person that works for him has a little fire going and has multiply jackets to keep him warm. Scrooge at the beginning was described as cold man with no facial expressions who shared little and hung onto every cent. He kept to himself, had no friends, and attended no social events.
