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. Bob Cratchit was Scrooge’s clerk. Scrooge is very mean to Bob and doesn’t pay him well. Fred is Scrooge’s nephew.
I think Marley see’s Scrooge is a lot different than most people because Marley was his business partner. In the play, Marley came back to help Scrooge from warning him and to help him from his afterlife. When Marley comes back he is wearing chains. The chains represent all the bad things Marley did in his life.
In the story, Mr. Cratchit seems like a loving person so he doesn’t think of Scrooge as a hateful person. Scrooge treats Mr. Cratchit very poorly and doesn’t pay him a lot of money for all the work he does. When they are at work it is very cold because Scrooge doesn’t allow Bob to have any of his coal. After Scrooge has his thing with the ghost he gives Mr. Cratchit a raise. Mr. Cratchit, even though he already did, was very thankful for Mr. Scrooge.
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Fred is Scrooge’s only family, his sister died a long time ago. At the beginning, Fred was sad that his uncle wasn’t coming to Christmas. Fred is disappointed in his uncle that Scrooge doesn’t like Christmas. In the end, Scrooge ends up going to Fred’s Christmas party. Fred was very happy about Scrooges change in
Acting cold, are you? Next, you’ll be asked to replenish coal from my coal box, won’t you? Well, save your breath, Cratchit! Unless you’re prepared to find employment elsewhere”(Horovitz 238). Scrooge has a miserly voice as he aggressively tells Cratchit no.
Also when Scrooge sees Bob Cratchit working, he sees that he is a hard worker. Scrooge finally realized that he has been ruining people’s lives. In Stave 4 Scrooge met the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. He was the most fearful ghost out of all of the ghosts.
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.
Scrooge has finally discovered what it means to be happy. He realizes that joy comes from being together with other people and helping others
Scrooge is an old man who is very grumpy and mean. He has a family but he doesn’t communicate with them and he is mean to his family but his family is nice to him even though he has been rude to them. He only cares about money and does anything to keep his money and is greedy, Scrooge is very mean and has a cold heart. Scrooge looks like an old man who is very grumpy and if you saw him in public he’d be wearing a black coat, black pants, a tall black hat, black shoes, a scarf and glasses. He most likely would have a grumpy look on his face with a scorned look.
But Scrooge likes him because he is relentlessly positive and Tiny Tim reminds him of himself as a child and making the best of every situation. He asked the Ghost of Christmas Present if Tiny Tim would make it and the answer was egregious. “If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.” (71) After Scrooge heard the answer he started to regret not giving Bob Cratchit the money he deserved. This event helped him to change because he realized that that little boy's life along
This ghost would then take Scrooge to different families, poor families, and show him money is not required to have a good time. One of the families he and the ghost visit is that of his clerk, Bob Cratchit. There he watches them eat their Christmas feast and talk to each other. “Then Bob proposed: ‘A merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!’
In the beginning of the novella scrooge is really poor and mean. He refused to buy gifts and donate money. A example was when Scrooge and Marley were in the office and it was really cold Marley had one candle to keep himself warm
The entrance of Scrooge’s nephew Fred at the beginning of the story introduces another side to the miser. Scrooge is not unfortunate in the way of relatives – he has a family awaiting his presence, asking him to dinner, wanting to celebrate the season with him, yet he refuses. This is one of the important moral moments in the story that helps predict Scrooge’s coming downfall. It shows how Scrooge makes choices to prolong his own misery. He chooses to live alone and in darkness while even poor Cratchit is rich in family.
He is happy to be seeing Bob in the morning. The next morning when scrooge goes into work late Bob is not there. Sometime goes by and Bob still is not there. After a few hours of waiting Bob shows up. Scrooge starts off showing some anger then eventually cools down.
By looking back on his past makes Scrooge realize why he truly hates Christmas time. It is because his lover, Belle, left him for money. This ironically parallels Scrooge’s future with love ones. He pushes others away and even holds back money from his own family. The Ghost of Christmas Present just makes Scrooge worse, by showing that his actions are slowly killing Bob Cratchit and the rest of his family.
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.
“The righteousness of the blameless keeps his ways straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness”(Prov. 11:5). The story, “A Christmas Carol”, is about a cold-hearted man named Scrooge who transforms himself into a jolly, kind man when three Ghosts teach Scrooge about the spirit of Christmas. In the story, Charles Dickens illustrates the theme of how no one is past redemption through the transformation of Scrooge’s personality by the lessons of the Spirits. At the beginning of the story, Scrooge’s selfish personality is revealed, and the Ghost of Christmas Past comes and shows him the memories and truth of his life long ago.
One night, in a dream, he is warned by his deceased friend, Marley, that three spirits would come to him. The first spirit is the spirit of Christmas past, and it shows him an event from his past. In the event, Scrooge is seen leaving his lover because she is too poor. Scrooge regrets this decision greatly. The next spirit tells him about the present, and it shows him how his employee, Bob Cratchit, is suffering.
He shows Scrooge what terrible conditions his employee, Cratchit, is living in, and how his family and he are struggling to make ends meet for the holiday season. He also shows him a homeless community that Scrooge didn't even know existed because he forgot that not everybody can be as wealthy as he is. This scene was cut from the play probably due to its lack of significance to the main plotline of the original story. The film depicts Future leading Scrooge to his grave, where men are digging up his never-shared fortunes for themselves, while the play only tells of the men digging the grave to bury him.