Scrooge In A Christmas Carol

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Scrooge was really changing throughout the novel. Dickens shows that Scrooge shows redemption throughout his life in the book. You can change at anytime it's never too late. Scrooge would have never thought he would change his ways. At the beginning Scrooge believes that his business was to always be mean and never change his ways. For an example “ I wish to be left alone.” This supports my topic sentence because Scrooge doesn't want anyone around him or anyone to even talk too him so this shows a way that he wasn't going to change his ways at first. Another example that Scrooge shows that he wasn't going to change his ways was he really didn't care for nobody but himself because he was so rich but still had a unhappy life.This supports

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