Ghost of Christmas Past

when he wrote “A Christmas Carol” in 1843. The main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, has no warmth in his soul and seems to care only for himself and his money. As the story unfolds, Scrooge prepares to close his counting house on the evening of Christmas Eve. He nastily declines an invitation from his nephew for the Christmas meal the next day and voices his dismay at having to give his only employee, Bob Cratchit, the day of Christmas off. Scrooge wishes to pass the evening and Christmas day, in…

hand there were two DVD cases, labeled: “It’s a Wonderful Life,” directed by Frank Capra, and “A Christmas Carol,” written by Charles Dickens. She placed a disc in the DVD player and nestles in a blanket beside him. In the story “It’s a Wonderful Life,” there is a well-known man who goes by the name George Bailey. He is kind, sweet and tries to help others to the best of his ability, but in “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens portrays a character, Ebenezer Scrooge, who does not show any real…

His Christmas series of novellas were categorized as fairy tales. Dickens himself even said he was taking old nursery tales and “giving them a higher form”(Bloom 153). A Christmas Carol was by far the most popular piece of fiction that Dickens ever wrote. It was published in 1843 as a part of the Christmas series (Charles Dickens Info). At the beginning of A Christmas Carol, we see Scrooge, who is a miser who shows no concern for the…

The story A Christmas Carol has a very important theme that relates to real life. The author Charles Dickens was able to relate his theme in the play to a real world problem. One of the main themes of this play is the fact that kids and the not wealthy are taken advantage of. This caused the reader to be able to realize their own wrong doings in their life and try their best to hopefully pursue to fix them. In a time of the Factory Movement in U.S. History, this was a story that really opened…

other or to survive within their environment that was suitable for them. When one survives then that is the environment or society they belong too. Charles Dickens wrote the novel A Christmas Carol, in the 19th century and was inspired by the circumstances London was experiencing during this time. Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol; in response toward how social norms set people apart, as far as lower class or upper class, in society. Likewise, Charles Darwin’s book The Origin of Species, points…

By giving someone a second chance you also teach them a lesson. For example, in the story A Christmas Carol Scrooge was always cruel and mean to everyone he had a second chance when he was shown his Christmas past, present, and future.When getting a second chance you might learn something that you didn’t realize before that would change your perspective on things. The ghost of Christmas future showed him that if you are mean to everyone you won’t have anyone, Scrooge learned this when they were…

In the short story “A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley” by: Israel Horovitz, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge changes a lot. One way Scrooge changes is that he becomes a generous person after being greedy. Another way Scrooge changes is he becomes a happy person after being a gloomy, mean person. These are just two of many ways Ebenezer Scrooge changes in the story. Scrooge is greedy with his money in the beginning of the story but that all changes when he looks at his co-worker Bob…

are “Honor, Duty, Respect”. The incident that took place goes against those core values and brought discredit to The Citadel. The incident that took place was that seven “knobs”, known as freshman cadets, dressed up in all white for the “ghosts of Christmas past” skit and had pillow…

the characteristics of Lena Grove, Reverend Gail Hightower, and Joe Christmas. Each of these characters is in some way, shape, or form isolated from his or her community, and each character’s relationship with his or her community can be derived from their relationship with the past. Faulkner uses a narrative style that varies by each character in an attempt to highlight the correlation between man’s relationship with his past and man’s relationship with his community. This direct correlation…

1 In this paragraph I will prove that Mr. Dickens uses imagery in his book A Christmas Carol to create an atmosphere by using vivid and descriptive adjectives to describe the setting and create a scene in the reader’s mind that reflects the one he’s written. 2 Imagery: the literary term used for language and description that appeals to our five senses (taste, touch, smell, hearing and most of all, sight). Throughout this paper I will use three quoted examples from the text in order to support…