Business In A Christmas Carol

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How well do you know Ebenezer Scrooge? And what does business mean to you? Ebenezer Scrooge does not understand the true meaning of “business”. The novel A Christmas Carol is about a mean old greddy man that learns a big lesson. He believes that “business” means to make money and to be rich. Dickens helps readers understand that being human means to be charitable by the way Scrooge acts at the end of the novel. In stave 1 Scrooge defines man's “business” as to making money. This impacts Scrooge's life because he is mean, greedy, and alone. In the text it states “ I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry.” this tells me that Scrooge thinks that people are lazy and they deserve to be poor which

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