The book A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is a book of many themes, however, the one that seems to stand out the most is the theme of “What goes around comes around.” There are two instances of this. The first is the instance of Jacob Marley. Jacob Marley was one of the two people that worked in the accounting company. Both of these people were very cruel and mean, yet the one that died first was named Jacob Marley. Marley is first seen to us in the form of his ghost. In this meeting he shows Scrooge (and therefore us) what his punishment is for all of the sins that he committed in his lifetime. He says “I wear the chain I forged in life … I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free
