Ghost of Christmas Present

Charles Dickens’ allegorical novella, A Christmas Carol, was written to spread awareness of the everlasting Christmas Spirit throughout the year. Ebenezer Scrooge, a fictional character, brought to life/fabricated as he represents the social hierarchy troubles that were going on in Victorian England. Scrooge lives his life as a less fortunate pauper and holds money as his golden idol; however, by letting avarice consume him, it almost lead to his ultimate downfall. Fortunately, four specters pay…

A christmas carol Why was Scrooge such a greedy dirtbag? Why did he hate the most festive time of the year? Scrooge always hated christmas and nobody ever knew why. Scrooge was a very evil person with the sin of greed by his side, but one day Scrooge changed. Everybody was shocked on christmas day seeing him change rapidly under twelve hours (How can he do that!). All of his change started off with these three factors. Jacob Marley, the spirits, and the Cratchit family made Scrooge change…

depicts how the ghost has decorated Scrooge's room with "bright gleaming berries…crisp leaves of holly, mistletoe and ivy". He furthermore describes the food heaped around the Spirit's throne. By using words such as "luscious", "cherry-cheeked", "seething" and "delicious", Dickens makes the food literally leap out of the page and make the readers mouth water. He is describing all the traditional food you have at Christmas and is making the point that Christmas is a…

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…

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…

Christmas Eve arrives, and Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his prior business partner, Jacob Marley. Jacob is constrained in chains, which he explains is his punishment for a life of misery, un-gratefulness and brutality to the poor. Scrooge is then visited by 3 ghosts the same night. The first Ghost shows him his Christmases past, where we begin to understand that Scrooge was not always bitter. The Second Ghost shows him the Christmas present, where Scrooge perceives…

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…

girlfriend he had was swatted off like flies. All of the Christmas Spirits showed him all of his memories, things that are happening right now, and things yet to come to show and make him rethink and change his ways for the better. On the other hand, the spirits came to the rescue and transformed him into a man that you will never think that is possible for him.…

2nd Quarter Book Analysis Character Sketch A Christmas Carol In the book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, is about how one night changed the life of Ebenezer Scrooge. The story begins in December, 1843 in London, England, when Scrooge is a middle-aged gentleman, who is a bad man at the start and becomes a good man by the end. In the beginning story Ebenezer Scrooge is a greedy man and a mean person who does not care to if, what he does with his money hurts other people. In between the…