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Scrooge In A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens

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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. Later on in stave 2, the ghost of Christmas past shows mistakes of Scrooge to him and as the readers we should all be able to infer that

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