Scrooge Change In A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol is a over 100 year old book yet people still find joy in reading it. Scrooge changed a lot between the beginning and the end of the christmas carol. The real change was the ghost of christmas past showed him his younger self sitting at his school all alone. In the beginning of the novella scrooge sees himself as a neglected lonely young boy. Seeing how miserable he was makes him start thinking about his own actions and how they affect others. “ ‘The school is not quite deserted,’ said the Ghost. ‘a solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still’... ‘Nothing. There was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that's all.’ “ This is the first time in the …show more content…
Scrooge is beginning to worry about people other than himself. “ ‘ If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future the child will die.’ ‘No, no, kind Spirit! say he will be spared.’ “ This is a recurring display of empathy. This shows that Scrooge has further progressed in change. He is still continuing to change. He changes but the end is really what shows all of this wasn’t for nothing. In the end of the novella Scrooge has completed his change and is very excited about it. He laughs and is very excited that he is not dead and still has time to change. “Really for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs!... ‘I’ll send it to Bob Cratchit's!’ Whispered Scrooge,”. This proves he has changed completely and won’t go back to the way he was before. He is done changing for the good and lives happily ever after. Reading A Christmas Carol was really fun. Scrooge changed a lot and it was very interesting finding and analyzing the difference in Scrooge throughout the book; but Scrooge wouldn’t have changed with out seeing himself as a