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    money-pinching man. Ebenezer Scrooge is a scrooge. A scrooge is a person who is stingy with money, they would rather do anything than part with a buck and they are really stubborn people, which is the perfect word to describe Scrooge. Well it was the perfect word, until Ebenezer Scrooge redeemed himself. Even Scrooge changed, that means that if the meanest and stingiest person can change, anyone can. You have to be willing to make an effort to change, because if you make an effort than you probably won 't succeed. Like for instance Scrooge was willing, because he wanted to protect Tiny Tim and himself, so he made a huge effort to change by trying to gain redemption. Scrooge works at his counting house with another man named Bob Cratchit. Scrooge and Bob Cratchit are…

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    to them, seeing them as “another race of creatures bound on other journeys”. Dickens challenged this outlook, and was disgusted by it, so he wrote the novella A Christmas Carol with the intent to change people’s views of the poor and society’s responsibility to them. Scrooge, who represents the richer class, is introduced as the personification of winter, after which Dickens uses Fezziwig who is the antithesis of Scrooge as an employer; Bob Cratchit and his family; and Ignorance and Want, in an…

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    Scrooge, a heartless man who only cares about his money and his wealthy, Scrooge doesn’t let go of his wealthy any second, even on Christmas. The day before Christmas, everywhere was peaceful, and happy, but only in the store which Scrooge owned, there only darkness and coldness. Fred, Scrooge’s nephew came in the store and wished his uncle a Merry Christmas, but all Scrooge said was, “a time finding yourself a year older and not an hour richer.” And made Fred went out. That night, after…

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    “If they would rather die,’ said scrooge, ‘they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population,”(Dickens 6). This quote comes from a book written by, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol where charity beggars were asking scrooge if he would like to give money to charity and scrooge responded with the quote. Scrooge who is the main character works at a counting house and he is an older man. Scrooge has a clerk named Bob Cratchit who is a poor family man. Scrooge gets visited by three…

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    "Bob 's inablity to afford medical trestment for Tiny Tim."(Davis 1). Scrooge is shown this to try and change him into seeing that he needs to treat people better. He has to see that the way he acts has not only hurt his future but others as well. "I will live in the Past, Present, and the Future !" ( Dickens 199). Scrooge starts to see the error of his ways and to change how he has acted. He is taught that he needs to show love and care to others and to be easier on people and to be kinder to…

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    who has a cold heart and replies “Humbug!” to all of the Christmas activities. He declines his nephew’s Christmas dinner invitation and irrationally fires his hard working employee Bob Cratchit. That night Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley, who warns him of three more ghosts that will be visiting him at one, two, and three a.m. The first ghost that visits Scrooge is the Ghost of…

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    In the book A Christmas Carol, the characters of the story symbolize the many realisms of the British Industrial Revolution henceforth making the story an allegory. For example, Bob Cratchit, Ebenezer Scrooge’s clerk, incarnates the poor. He was a hardworking man being the epitome of the hardworking and uncomplaining working class. Tiny Tim, Bob’s son, symbolized hope. However, Ebenezer Scrooge is the quintessence of all things evil of the Industrial Revolution as he embodied the “ignorance…

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    The spirit shows him Bob Cratchit's once more, showing that Tiny Tim, Bob's most crippled son, has died. The spirit also showed him his own grave. Scrooge was scared, so he figured he had to change his ways. The next morning Scrooge wakes up, and it is Christmas morning. He walks around, greeting people, saying "Merry Christmas!" And even, "Good morning!" He finally realized, that life isn't all about how rich you are or what you have. It is whether or not youare happy and have friends. He…

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    Scrooge alone, the ghost of Christmas Present visits Scrooge. Scrooge is given a look at the happiness and poverty of many families who do not have much of anything. The Ghost of Christmas Future, who stays completely silent at all times takes Scrooge to Christmases in the future. Scrooge witnesses the effect Tiny Tim’s death had on Bob Cratchit’s family. Ebenezer Scrooge discerns that no one will mourn his own…

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    when he learns that Bob Cratchit's ill son, Tiny Tim will die. He begs the spirit, ' Oh no, kind Spirit! Say he will be spared' This does not sound like the cruel, hardhearted man that the story began with. Next, it is his nephew's home where the air is full of laughter, happiness and mockery towards the meanness of Scrooge, but still raises a Christmas toast to him The last ghost, the ghost of Christmas yet to come then visits. Scrooge shows he is changing by telling the hooded spirit …

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