Ghost of Christmas Present

You've had enough beer already.” the old woman said, calling back to the old man. “Besides, it's getting late and Halloween will be over soon anyway. The kids on the street are already starting to dwindle.” “All the reason to have one more beer!” whined the old man. “No!” shouted the old woman from the porch as she stood next to the pumpkins who were trying desperately not to give themselves up by laughing. “Ah... you're no fun.” said the old man throwing up a hand in the air in a…

Inaction, that demonstrates silence, is just as dangerous as speaking out. In chapter five, Elie is being transferred to a new Kommando and they are beginning a selection. Elie observes the old men and thought, "The old men stayed in their corner, silent, motionless, hunted-down creatures. Some were praying. One more hour. Then we would know the verdict: death or reprieve" (Wiesel 70). The older men, who can't work, are scared because they don't want to be selected to die. They are just sitting…

Do you ever feel like you're living the same day over and over again? Phil Connors (Bill Murray) can relate with the 1993 film “Groundhog Day”. This film written by Harold Ramis is a romantic comedy that keeps the audience guessing, but also makes them reflect on themselves. Phil is a stuck up guy, that only worries about his own problems and doesn’t think about how he is affecting other people’s lives. Phil, a weatherman, is sent on assignment to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities in…

A Christmas Carol is a over 100 year old book yet people still find joy in reading it. Scrooge changed a lot between the beginning and the end of the christmas carol. The real change was the ghost of christmas past showed him his younger self sitting at his school all alone. In the beginning of the novella scrooge sees himself as a neglected lonely young boy. Seeing how miserable he was makes him start thinking about his own actions and how they affect others. “ ‘The school is not quite…

Although four out of every five people seem, lost all humanity in todays world, Richard LeMieux shows that one person who still has their humanity through his humbiling experience. The purpose of LeMieux’s excerpt “The Lady In Red” serves to illustrate to the reader a world in which people contain no desire to even help out an unfortunate man on the street and he successfully persuades the reader of this horror mainly through pathos appeal. LeMieux and his dog Willow find themselves in a rough…

In Charles Dickens’, A christmas Carol I speculate all three spirits assisted Scrooge from his callous behaviour, and shifted his life around to make him a content man. Scrooge learns the same lesson from all three spirit (That kindness is the key to happiness) however, each spirit tells scrooge happiness in different ways. In the beginning of the novella, Scrooge is portrayed as a cold-hearted miser who abhors anything joyful , but once visited by the spirits scrooge is depicted as a…

Scrooge, a heartless man who only cares about his money and his wealthy, Scrooge doesn’t let go of his wealthy any second, even on Christmas. The day before Christmas, everywhere was peaceful, and happy, but only in the store which Scrooge owned, there only darkness and coldness. Fred, Scrooge’s nephew came in the store and wished his uncle a Merry Christmas, but all Scrooge said was, “a time finding yourself a year older and not an hour richer.” And made Fred went out. That night, after…

A Christmas Carol is a short novel by Charles Dickens, published for the first time in 1843 that takes place in the Victorian London. The main characters are Scrooge, Jacob Marley, The Ghost of Christmas Past, The Ghost of Christmas Present, and The Ghost of Christmas Future. But other characters can also be found such as Fred, Scrooge’s nephew; Fezziwig, who was Scrooge’s mentor; Belle, a woman who Scrooge loved; Bob Cratchit; Scrooge’s clerk, and others. The story begins by stating Marley’s…

action in the present, So when given a chance to look at the future, people will want to come back to the present, and change their actions for a better future. In the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge, the main character, is a wicked and grumpy man to start with. As four ghost visits him, with the ghost of future as the most influential, Scrooge becomes a caring, joyful man. All the ghosts are important in the development of Scrooge, but none more important than The Ghost…

The most important character among three Christmas ghosts in A Christmas Carol Christmas Carol was an influent novel which was written by Charles Dickens throughout one and half century about a life of Ebenezer Scrooge as a negative, penny-pinching and distasteful man in London. No one had ever wished to work as an employee in his office after his best business partner Jacob Marley died except Bob Cratchit. Nothing in the world would scare Scrooge if it wasn’t about the gold…