A Christmas Carol Bob And Marly (Essay 2)

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“A Christmas Carol” Bob and Marly (Essay 2)

“A Christmas Carol” Bob and Marly have many important messages in the book. These messages and be shown by examples in the book and real life. They are vary important to the story and certain characters.

The first message is “If one person changes for the better, others are effected for the better.”. A great example of this is towards the end of the story after Scrooge’s his change in attitude after the event with the spirits. He was vary nice to everyone in everyone in town on Christmas morning. He even had some holiday spirit when he told the man who he bought the turkey form after giving him to match money, “Than keep it, my lad. Its Christmas!”. He also surprised his nephew and attended his Christmas party. Many people go though an event or events and completely change there attitude like Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol” Bob and Marly.
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Scrooge was like before his encounter with the spirits. He seemed to only like money and work, and the only friend he had was his business partner Marley. He was vary rich man and didn’t use his money for charity or helping others. He didn’t even spend money for heating in his house! People who act like Scrooge, greedy, hates people, mean in general will most likely have a bad future. Many bad things happened to Scrooge because his greedy personality. Him losing his wife and the whole trial of the spirits was because of his

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