Ghost of Christmas Past

during his Christmas gathering despite that Scrooge treats him in such a rude manner. Scrooge’s employer, Fezziwig, displays a prime example of how happiness is more important than currency. He closes work early on Christmas day to gather everyone together and have a party, just for the opportunity for everyone to enjoy themselves. The example that surprises Scrooge most of all is the Cratchit family’s…

parts of the drama, The Christmas Carol. The Christmas Carol is a story of an old miser that cares nothing of Christmas, until an old friend of his warns him of the terrible things that might happen if he doesn’t change his ways. He also warns of three other being that will be visiting him throughout the night. The spirit of Past, present, and Future. Although some might make the claim that either Past or Future were the most influential to Scrooge’s thoughts about Christmas. The Spirit which is…

A Christmas Carol by, the talented author, Charles Dickens, is a fiction story about the ghosts of Scrooge’s Christmas Past, Present, as well as Future and his journey to become a kind and loving person. If I were in charge of designing a flag that would symbolically represent an important aspect of the novel A Christmas Carol, the one element I would include in my flag design would be a path leading two directions. In the story, Scrooge is warned by Marley’s Ghost during a sudden visit about…

Scrooge presented in a Christmas Carol - What is he like? Are we sympathetic to him? Does he change? What language features are used to do this? Ebenezer Scrooge This essay is looking at the character, Ebenezer Scrooge throughout…

A Christmas Carol is the story of an old man’s fantastic adventure one Christmas Eve. Ebenezer Scrooge’s adventure is a journey of discovery – learning that a heart filled with goodwill and charity, instead of bitterness and greed are more valuable and prosperous to the soul than material riches. Before his adventure, Ebenezer Scrooge complained to his nephew the morning of Christmas Eve, “If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled…

In Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol stave 1, Ebenezer Scrooge is a grumpy old man that is isolated from the rest of the world and he cares only for money. “The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue, and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice” (3). Since his sole partner in life, Bob Marley, has died Scrooge has gone into a recession of loving money more than anything. While in the office…

escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer,' urgues the Ghost of Jacob Marley (Dickens 30). The Ghost Of Jacob Marley came to Scrooge to warn him, trying to open his stone heart, to change his life of selfishness and greediness. The Ghost wanted to show Scrooge that the true happiness is in giving and in making other people happy. In the similar way as the Ghost of Jacob speaks to Scrooge, so the Ghost of Goodness, Love, Compassion, Forgiveness speaks to us. He comes to us in…

become elderly will someone care for them? In the beginning of, "A Christmas Carol', by Charles Dickens, Scrooge never thought about his future until Future ghost shows him what happens in his future. In the story, Scrooge, is haunted by three ghosts, Past, Present, and Future. All three ghosts show him events of his life. The events shown differ, but Future's effects him the most. Firstly, one incident that the ghost of Christmas Future shows Scrooge is his maid stealing from him when he is…

A Christmas Carol Essay There will always be stories that are microcosm, which are written in order to help society or the community realize that there is a problem at hand that needs to be resolved. Charles Dickens, who wrote A Christmas Carol, wrote about the real meaning of Christmas and what we should be in our mind during this period of time. He was able to bring up the problem that was happening around him and helped many realize it was time for a change and time to fix this problem.…

Halloween versus Christmas in the United States Holidays in the United States have been adapted from cultures all over the world. Each one is a unique from its original form in other countries. For example; in other countries a fox, chicken, or goose delivers eggs on Easter which is different from Americas’ version of “The Easter Bunny”. However there are two holidays that while they seem very different, they share a lot of the same traditions. These are Halloween and Christmas. The history…