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Scrooge's Song

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One song that relates to the theme of Past, Present and Future: The Threat of Time, is Summertime’s End by Weather. This song is about regrets of the past but has a positive outlook of the future. Lyrics of the song include “I’m sorry I did wrong” showing regret of something he did in the past. This relates to the theme because it shows how someone can show regret from past decisions (the threat of time). Scrooge feels this when he visits past Christmases with the Ghost of Christmas Past. Another lyric in the song is “try to find where I went wrong” indicating that this person wants to try and figure out what he did wrong so he knows why his life is like it is now. Scrooge does this when he it with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. He is

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