The Poem Who Is Ebenezer Scrooge? By Simone Brooklyn

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In the poem, “Who is Ebenezer Scrooge?” By Simone Brooklyn, she is trying to convey the concept that our own selves tend to assume what other people are like without genuinely knowing who they really are by asking the public in respect to the main character, is he really who people assume him to be? Thinking about him in a positive way, however, asking, again, the audience if everything we believed about him was true.
There’s only a couple of similarities between these two pieces of literature. They both describe the main character, Scrooge, by describing him as a grumpy and dull person. However, these two pieces of literature do have some differences.
The author in the poem does focus just on Scrooge and does not give any background information

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