After seeing his gravestone he was scared, upset, and confused. Scrooge completely changed after seeing the gravestone because he believed that he already changed into a good person that enjoys christmas which is why he was confused. Scrooge also asked the ghost if there was any way to alter the future because he does not want to die a bad person that nobody…
A christmas carol Why was Scrooge such a greedy dirtbag? Why did he hate the most festive time of the year? Scrooge always hated christmas and nobody ever knew why. Scrooge was a very evil person with the sin of greed by his side, but one day Scrooge changed. Everybody was shocked on christmas day seeing him change rapidly under twelve hours (How can he do that!).…
Scrooge learns over time from the three spirits, that there’s more to life, then just money, and being self conceited. On page 617, Scrooge states “ It’s me. Poor boy. He lived inside his head...alone...poor boy.” On page 620, Scrooge states “...…
Scrooge and I see eachother every week at the market, we sometimes even walk around together and talk about the weather or silly little things such as that. I am looking forward to having yet another friend to invite over to our house for dinner, or just to talk too. I hope scrooge and I will be great friends in the near…
It seems like young Scrooge had Christmas spirit and now Scrooge is remembering what it feels like to be merry and jolly around the holiday. The Ghost also teaches Scrooge by taking him on a tour of all his neglected and lonely Christmases as a child and adult. Scrooge begins to feel empathy for the caroling boy he neglected. The reason why he feels ashamed is because…
Wealth plays a massive role in America. Society places a lot of attention on celebrities and other people with enormous fortunes. Americans constantly read about these wealthy people in magazines or watch them on television, desiring to have a similar life. The American Dream is the idea if people work hard, they will be able to obtain their own fortune. Numerous people believe that having a massive amount of money can resolve many of your problems.…
Dickens makes a positive aura around the Christmas feeling as of Stave 1, he makes the Stave full of energy as when Scrooge wakes up he is suddenly buzzing with energy and is as “light as a feather” and runs to the window where a young boy is shocked to know that Scrooge doesn’t know what day it is. Scrooge pays the boy to get the poultries and to buy the prize turkey which he delivers to Bob Cratchits as anonymous. The Stave is significant to the story as it shows that if someone as miserly as Scrooge can change it means that anyone can change which is what Dickens wants the adults as well as children who read the book so that they can change the way they behave to people. Dickens shows what the readers how it is like to be living in a poor family and is more or less basing the book on his own experience in his life. Scrooge evidently has become a happier person as Dickens shows by pretending to be angry with Bob Cratchit for being late…
If Scrooge kept his terrible ways he would keep living a lonely and sad life. If he kept be so terrible he will die alone with no friends and family to be there with him when his final hours come. Since he became kind he got to spend time with his nephew on Christmas. He will now be joyful for the rest of his life because he changed. To people out there who have the same mindframe as Scrooge…
There was once a man named Scrooge he was very greedy with his money. He hated to spend it too. This man named Scrooge looked like a greedy old person. His hair was all white. He was very, very well dressed.…
A Christmas Carol tells the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge a man who, despite the cheerful spirit of Christmas, turns to solitary and secrecy throughout this period. The selfish attitude Scrooge portrays correlates to the manifestation of four spirits that present themselves as a warning of what shall occur if he continues on the path of self-interest. Self-interest lives within all of us, it gives us the inclination to put ourselves in front of others. However the spirit of Christmas lives to curtail the selfish motives we all shelter. Scrooge becomes cognizant of his ambivalence regarding his selfish intentions and desire to promote charity.…
Essay Christmas is a time where families come together to share in the christmas joy. Richard Rodrigues shows the negative impact of a newly wealthy family, and the change in the dynamic that the material success has brought. The once proud parents who always wanted success for their children have seen less and less of their kids, and the effect of that is conveyed in the detailed interaction between the members of their family. Sibling’s success that allows them to buy such expensive items has taken them away from their family and holidays have become a routine rather than a genuine interaction. Rodriguez himself also notices the emptiness in their relationship both between himself and his parents and everyone as a unit.…
He then leaves the upper class of the city, and is faced with the poverty stricken areas. Here, Dickens shows how the poor make the rich richer, but stay in poverty themselves. It gives the reader a sense of reality as to how life really was in the time that Charles Dickens lived. Scrooge realises that it is he that has died, and is horrified to witness the ones that have stripped his home of materialistic goods, like vultures, in order to gain money for their own. They show no compassion towards Scrooge, only the emotion of relief is felt from his death.…
Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.” (page 3 stave one). Scrooge’s greediness overtook his kind heart and his empathy for other. Otherwise, he would have been more generous to his clerk and…
Scrooge is taught the consequences of being a mean-spirited person by the ghost of his dead co-worker, the ghost of Jacob Marley. The Ghost of Christmas Past teaches Scrooge that in order to interact and be a larger part of society, he needs to open his closed heart. The Ghost of Christmas Present teaches Scrooge that being a wealthy human being does not guaranty long term happiness. Finally, The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge that events that will occur if he does not change his way of life. From the beginning and to the end of the novel, Scrooge learns a lot and redeems himself.…
Attitude. Scrooge is very optimistic. There is always another rainbow. Plenty to go around. More than enough for all.…