Ghost of Christmas Present

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…

The character of ignorance and want are personified as two hideous children that Scrooge points out beneath the robe of the Christmas present. The ghost of Christmas present tells Scrooge to be aware of these two creature that are made by the man kind, especially ignorance. Dickens uses these two children to represent the poor in the Victorian era. Dickens uses the girl "Ignorance" to symbolize the the ignorant attitude to the wealthy class toward the poor. Ignoring the problems faced by the…

William Shakespeare’s King Lear, King Lear learns the true nature of those around him when he is forced to endure emotional and physical hardships. In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, three spirits expose Ebenezer Scrooge to those who suffer from his actions several times before he redeems himself. In King Lear and A Christmas Carol, both Lear and Scrooge must persevere through life’s trials in order to redeem themselves. First, both Lear and Scrooge’s…

Changes That Give a Chance For Better Charles Dickens’ classic story, A Christmas Carol, is about a man named Ebeneezer Scrooge, who is old and greedy. He lives a life of stinginess and misery because of his own extreme greed. Scrooge is mean to everyone, especially around Christmas. He is visited by three ghosts who show him his past, present, and future. Scrooge comes to realize that he has used money to escape his fears of poverty and loneliness. He learns that he has the ability to change…

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…

At the beginning of my Christmas break, I was sitting by a smoky, hot fire with some hot coco with marshmallows in it with a warm blanket on a cold day.On the second day of break, I was riding my four wheeler drifting on the icy roads trying to go get more wood for my family's fire at my grandma and grandpa's house .But when I got there and there was a big puff of smoke in the back and it smelled like a fire so I ran back there, but it was just my grandma and grandpa making a fire so they could…

dining table utilizing her sterling silverware. Charles Peterson’s “Skater’s Ice” (9 - Erin) Your mother and I purchased this numbered print in the late 1990s. The print features ghost skaters on a stream, which flows under a covered bridge. The covered bridge brought back memories of our trip to Vermont and the ghost skaters fascinated us. According to prices on the Internet, Charles Peterson’s work has substantially increased in value. James McCaffrey’s “The Walled Garden” (5 - Erin) …

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…