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    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…

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    classes whose enjoyment of the season is enriched by wealth, to the embittered character of Scrooge whose view is one of a day of waste. Dickens uses both outdoor and indoor landscape to create the character of Bob Cratchit by contrasting his dominated servant attitude while in service to Scrooge versus his openly loving father/husband role within the Cratchit family.…

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    Carol is about a man named Ebenezer Scrooge. All he cares about is himself, money, and personal gain. By the end of the story he happy, he was also generous and cared about other people not just himself. In the beginning before this all started Scrooge was mean and cold hearted. He didn't care about anyone else except himself. Scrooge lives in a dark and gloomy house, it is dark and gloomy because he doesn’t pay for electric. When The Portly men asked Scrooge for donations for charities he would…

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    Similarities and Differences A cold Christmas, 1843, Ebenezer Scrooge never saw what being a roadkill had in store for his lifetime. A Merry Christmas can have its pros and cons in a story. Reading two different things, a script and a play can mean many different things. They can have similarities and differences. They can be completely different, and they can still have a great turnout. The good point in having similarities and differences is the outcome. The knowledge of learning something…

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    Christmas Carol, the one element I would include in my flag design would be a path leading two directions. In the story, Scrooge is warned by Marley’s Ghost during a sudden visit about what is to come if he continues to be a miser. On page 30, Marley’s Ghost says,”Without [the three spirit’s] visits...you cannot hope to shun the path I tread“(Dickens). Marley is literally saying that if Scrooge does not hearken to the Spirits and what…

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    Christmas Spirit means to be jolly, giving, and praising, but to the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Christmas Spirit is split into three forms: Past, Present, and Future. These spirits come to show Scrooge what his life was like, is like, and will be like without Christmas Spirit. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come plays the main part in transforming Scrooge into a joyful, spirited man by convincing him to live a better life, fulfilling the lessons…

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    the book A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens describes a man named Ebenezer Scrooge as a cold hearted, selfish, money-pinching man. Ebenezer Scrooge is a scrooge. A scrooge is a person who is stingy with money, they would rather do anything than part with a buck and they are really stubborn people, which is the perfect word to describe Scrooge. Well it was the perfect word, until Ebenezer Scrooge redeemed himself. Even Scrooge changed, that means that if the meanest and stingiest person can…

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    and also add something unique to it. This director didn’t change the play, but he made it so exclusive and lovely for the audience. This director wanted to show how Scrooge will change after he will see three ghosts. This play has a great concept and it was easy to understand everything. This play theme is change in life. Scrooge is old men…

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    Charles Dickens, the main characters, the Grinch and Ebenezer Scrooge, are similar to each other in many ways such as their awful personality. The Grinch is a green hairy who is very greedy, stingy, and a little evil creature. He wants nothing to do with the Whos, hates Christmas, and wants the Who 's Christmas spirit to be gone. Ebenezer Scrooge is an old grumpy selfish miser who doesn’t care about others…

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    in 1843. The book is about an old man named ebenezer scrooge who hates christmas and is sent into the past, present, and future by three spirits to convince him to stop. There are tons of different versions of this story, I´m going to compare the ending of three of them, the original, the animated movie version, and the marvel comic. First lets compare how all three of them are similar. The ending of all three versions is about the Mr. scrooge being sent into a graveyard by the of christmas…

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