Scrooge In A Christmas Carol

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Just so we know before the story starts the author clearly states that Marley dead, dead, dead, dead. This is about Scrooge, who is a phenomenally sorrowful, dismal, person that is extremely oblivious to multiple of people in cruel, bitter ways. He absolutely despises all objects and feelings that include happiness and generosity, especially Christmas, accordingly the text states that people try to sing Christmas carols, but he made them leave. Two gentlemen from a local charity visited Scrooge at his office asking him for a donation to help the poor and he responded to their request with these words, “Aren’t there prisons and union workhouses they can just live in?” Then, his dead business partner Marley, who is now a ghost shows up. Putting …show more content…
When the ghost does arrive, he doesn’t act scared though. This ghost accordingly states he is the ghost of Christmas present. This ghost talks about the Cratchit family. They carefully pay attention to as much as they can as the family discusses their problem and as the father comes with tiny Tim, the ghost claims he will perish. This leads him to start configuring on how he can do as much as he can to try and find a way to let him survive. With Scrooge consequently as miserable as he already was, he sees his nephew again. The passage mentions the fact about how all the family members show up except Scrooge nevertheless the family laugh at him and tease him for his life when decides he might possibly attend this year. Then, as the time runs out the phantom …show more content…
The spirit can’t communicate using language, therefore Scrooge has a very difficult time understanding him. The other spirits lead him to figure out he was the ghost of Christmas future. As they progress and travel forward and witness two men talking about someone’s funeral, but don’t mention who it was for. The same men talk about the man that is dead accordingly as if it was Scrooge. They suddenly go to an atrocious section of town and the ghost shows Scrooge, how he is similar to these cruel people.The spirit decides to move on and go back to the general topic and notwithstanding soon figure out the funeral was for Scrooge! The two men are going to sell all his belongings when they find the accurate price. One of those men is a male named Joe and he is the undertaker, the person who buries people. This unhappy man leads Scrooge that he is unhappy and is rude.The ways he acted in the past leads him to think he died from what he did. This made him feel bad so he wishes the phantom to show him one person who cared about his death. Scrooge spots Bob Cratchit as they talk about tiny Tim as if he was dead. While he is watching he notices tiny Tim is dead in the future and Bob promised, tiny Tim right before he died that he would visit the grave for Scrooge every Sunday ordinarily whenever he can again nevertheless the ghost had

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