Ebenezer Scrooge

In this extract we see how horrible and selfish Scrooge is. We get an insight in how Scrooge looks, and therefore what he is like as a person too. As a whole, the extract makes Scrooge seem isolated and rude, and that he only cares for money and no one else. There is lots of imagery in this extract which tells us about Scrooge. For example, ‘hard and sharp as a flint’ suggests that his personality is grey and dull. Also it could suggest that his heart is rock hard and almost impossible to melt.…

You've had enough beer already.” the old woman said, calling back to the old man. “Besides, it's getting late and Halloween will be over soon anyway. The kids on the street are already starting to dwindle.” “All the reason to have one more beer!” whined the old man. “No!” shouted the old woman from the porch as she stood next to the pumpkins who were trying desperately not to give themselves up by laughing. “Ah... you're no fun.” said the old man throwing up a hand in the air in a…

Inaction, that demonstrates silence, is just as dangerous as speaking out. In chapter five, Elie is being transferred to a new Kommando and they are beginning a selection. Elie observes the old men and thought, "The old men stayed in their corner, silent, motionless, hunted-down creatures. Some were praying. One more hour. Then we would know the verdict: death or reprieve" (Wiesel 70). The older men, who can't work, are scared because they don't want to be selected to die. They are just sitting…

Based on what I read, Scrooge sounds like an old grumpy, greedy, disrespectful man. According to the text it states that, he is grumpy and very hard to handle. Also, the text states that he doesn't really care about a plethora of things like Christmas because he does not get the point of Christmas. On page one, the author describes how he was exceedingly rude to a boy who shows up asking for any donations for the poor, but Scrooge tells him to leave, and argues that anyone who is poor can…

The three passages that I have chosen to help me relate to the three sprits is STAVE II, STAVE III, STAVE IV. The first of the three sprits met by scrooge is the ghost of Christmas past, and this spirit symbolizes truth. Scrooge’s family brings him home from boarding school, but suddenly send him off to apprentice as an accountant. (S.2 P.53) Scrooge did not have love or affection at school , nor did he get it from his family. Later on in life, his fiancé Belle, releases him from their…

glow” brought on by the idea of hope through the birth of Christ and Scrooge as the stark opposite, a “grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner,” who personifies the absence of Christmas spirit. Scrooge, the epitome of a miser, is not without family- he chooses to disregard the existence of his nephew Fred and lives a solitary life. Both the film and the novella depict this reclusive…

Applied to Today A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a novel that changes a person’s perspective on helping ‘mankind’. Marley, a former friend and partner of Scrooge, visits Scrooge in the night to confront his poor contribution to improve mankind. The ghost of Marley is unable to rest until he has visited his “fellow-men” (Dickens, 13). Scrooge is then visited by three ghosts: the past, present, and future. Feelings of realization burst and his heart becomes filled with “charity, mercy,…

clearly states that Marley dead, dead, dead, dead. This is about Scrooge, who is a phenomenally sorrowful, dismal, person that is extremely oblivious to multiple of people in cruel, bitter ways. He absolutely despises all objects and feelings that include happiness and generosity, especially Christmas, accordingly the text states that people try to sing Christmas carols, but he made them leave. Two gentlemen from a local charity visited Scrooge at his office asking him for a donation to help the…

behaviours and asks the spirit to 'conduct [him] where you will. I went forth last night on compulsion, and I learnt a lesson…let me profit by it.' The spirit, through Dickens, transports Scrooge to view an affectionate scene during Christmas with the Cratchits, where Tiny Tim's feeble self is seated next to his father. Scrooge feels miserable for the family even though they are 'happy [and] grateful' because it was Christmas time and are always 'pleased with one another and contented with the…

Chapter 1: Dinky’s Dilemma Dinky was an elf. As everyone knows there are many kinds of elves. There are shoe elves, cookie elves, and forest elves, and there are Christmas elves. Dinky was a forest elf. It’s not that he didn’t like being an elf. Dinky, just didn’t want to be a forest elf. For as long as he could remember in his short 12 years of life, Dinky had always wanted to be a Christmas elf. Wouldn’t it be grand to live at the North Pole with Santa year round and make toys? Every six…