Ghost of Christmas Past

ever see ghosts that showed you the future, present, and past. Well, Scrooge has seen a ghost! Scrooge was scared of the first ghosts. It is his old CO worker warning him to listen to the ghost carefully, or he will become like him in a couple of days. Scrooge was starting to freak out when the second ghost scared him to death. The ghost showed him his friends and his girlfriend and how he treated him. After he sat in his chair, the third ghost watched his CO worker celebrate Christmas…

A Christmas Story: Compare and Contrast A Christmas Story is a story that is full of twists and turns that grab your attention in every paragraph throughout the story. You can read this story manually, or you can watch the movie. There are many differences and similarities between the book and the movie. But what are these similarities and differences? Some of these similarities and differences are small, small parts of the book or movie that can be barely noticeable as you are reading or…

The movie, A Christmas Carol, tells the tale of an old miserable callous man named Ebenezer Scrooge and his path to redemption. It takes place in the mid 1800s, where the people of London are consumed with the spirit of Christmas and the excitement that comes with the season. Scrooge is known around town as a greedy creditor 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…

We are reading the book the Christmas carol for school.The theme for stave one was greed. This is about a man named Scrooge owns a counting company. He enjoys counting his money with his Time. he is a very greedy man when the people came asking for a donation for the poor Scrooge said “is there is not prisons or poor homes”. this shows his greed , but later that night his old partner marley's ghost came. He was trying to tell him that he is greedy and should help others. he was told that one…

lived in London, England. And he hated Christmas more than anything. He thought that Christmas was humbug. The only thing he hated more than Christmas was love. And while the city prepared for christmas, singing christmas carols and buying food and presents for Christmas was the next day, Scrooge remained in his counting house. His nephew went to see him to invite him to a christmas dinner. But Scrooge although he was rich he was bitter to celebrate Christmas, while his nephew Fred who was poor,…

A Christmas Carol Have you ever heard of a book called “A Christmas Carol”? Well if you haven’t keep reading and if you have still keep reading you might learn something. A Christmas Carol was originally a book written by Charles Dickens in 1843. In the book he is visited by his former Business partner (after his business partner died) because he is being warned that three ghosts are going to come, one showing the past, one the Present, and one the future. The book has had many Movies,…

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 time'. Dickens, through the Spirit of Christmas Present, has also used caricatures to juxtapose with Scrooge's characterization by revealing…

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens shows the theme that anyone can become a better person if they look upon their past. The reader learns that even someone like Scrooge can become a great man. At the beginning of the story, Ebenezer Scrooge is a greedy, rude man. On pages 17 and 18 he refuses to donate any of his money (Which he has plenty of) to the poor. On page 20 a caroller comes to his door and Scrooge makes them run away. On page 15 he refuses his own nephew’s Christmas meal invitation.…

Dickens novella, “A Christmas Carol”, continues to influence many aspects of Christmas that are celebrated today, such as family gatherings, seasonal food and drink, a spirit of generosity and a humanitarian focus of generosity of those less fortunate during this holiday season. It is the diverse views of the spirit of generosity and humanitarian focus that Dickens seeks to expose in this literary work. The landscapes of the novella shift between the poverty stricken, sick and imprisoned to…

The classic tale of, “A Christmas Carol,” has various insights to be viewed and interpretations to the text, all of which a good story should posses. However, it establishes an inevitable them, to which most would agree, is that it’s never too late for redemption, derived from the shifting of personality traits from Scrooge after living a life of poor morals into a man with a heart of benevolence. These changes occur during the entire course of the story, and are caused by elements of guilt,…