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    All I heard was a roaring wind howling by night. I was waiting for Scrooge to get back from his office. He was running later than usual. I was very worried about him because he was later than usual, it was kinda odd, what shall I do. Is he ok? There was only one thing I could do. Pausing, I waited for him in his room. An hour has passed no sign of Scrooge, I heard the front door it has to be Ebenezer Scrooge!!! I could hear Scrooge is coming up the steps to his room. He opened the door and had an exhausting face. He triple-locked the door, seconds later he sat down, then he got a bowl of gruel. He was trying to figure out the noises from the wall and the bells jingling from the ceiling from the wind howling. He recognized the man’s voice so…

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    This essay is about Uncle Scrooge, and how his personality changed throughout the book, movie, and play. Uncle Scrooge was a biusness man. All he thought about was how to make more money. He had a partner his name was Jacob Marley. He died as a greedy, and mean old man that only cared about money. Ebenezer Scrooge soon caught on with this trait. In the beginning of the story Scrooge is a horrible man. All he wanted was money and nothing to do with anybody else or Christmas. He was greedy,…

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    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…

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    “We can change our future by merely changing our attitude to the positive. Simple yet powerful!” - Zeenat Merchant Syal. In Frederick Gaines’ drama, A Christmas Carol, adapted from Charles Dickens’ novel Scrooge learns that if he does not have a change in heart he will die in the near future. Ebenezer Scrooge changes from the exposition of the play to the denouement. Ebenezer Scrooge is mean and heartless in the exposition; by the middle of the play Scrooge becomes scared, and by the denouement…

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    differences can change your perspective of things, even if it was never expected. Writing with similarities agree on many different topics. Similarities are probably the thing that make the writing world more clearly. The agreements on two different things, make things better somehow. The play and movie differed somewhat. There were no fundraisers that Ebenezer had supported, helping those in need. Eventually, Scrooge had donated money to those who were in need. Main characters and…

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    Christmas Carol the difference isn’t huge but the have there differences. In the drama Ebenezer Scrooge is a cruel man who doesn't share he high amounts of money he has and also hates the idea of Christmas. “ Bah! Humbug!”( Twain 5). The ghost of his partner, Jacob Marley shows Scrooge the outcome of being greedy. In result, he sends three spirits to sharpen up his attitude. The three spirits show him the horrible life on his partner Bob Cratchit, the poor and homeless, and the grave house…

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    he was an old man full to the brim with greed. He had no christmas spirit and called it a “humbug!”(Dickens 3) Now poor Ebenezer needed to be taught some very needed christmas spirit, so one christmas eve, he was visited by his old, dead, business partner’s ghost, Jacob Marley. He tells Scrooge that he will be visited by 3 ghosts that will teach him about the true meaning of christmas. the 3 ghosts names were: past, present, and future. Past was the first to come. He showed scrooge visions from…

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    In Charles Dickens's award winning novel, "A Christmas Carol," Mr. Scrooge was visited by different ghosts from the past, present, and future to help him realize that he is not who he should be. When he is invited to see his grave stone the Scrooge implores, "Men's course will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the course be departed from, the end's will change. Say it is thus with what you show me." What do you think he meant when he said this? The…

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    In the Christmas Carol Scrooge is very unhappy with the oncoming season Christmas. Everyone is cheerful and Scrooge is trying to get as much work done before the counting house closes. That night the ghost of Jacob Marley comes to tell Scrooge that he will be visited by three spirits so he can change his ways. During these trips Scrooge realizes that Christmas is actually a very merry day. In both Scrooge’s and Fezziwig's workplaces there were fires going. The people there worried hard and…

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    similarities and differences are there in the play and in the movie, well you are just going to have to read to find out. “A Christmas Carol” is about an old grumpy man who is seen the joy that christmas brings to all. The play version starts out where Marley (A friend of Ebenezer Scrooge) is telling us about him and Scrooge. Then we see Scrooge and other men in his office. When Scrooge goes home and wakes up at one o’clock, he is visited by the ghost of christmas past to show him his past.…

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