Scrooge

It was a loud bar, with loud people and loud interior design. Neon lit the place, dartboards with rusted darts embroidered with rust still stuck in the board hung on the dark walls. I walked in, and sat down. I ordered a drink and looked around. Same people, as always, due the the flamboyant style of the bar. It was a small village, almost barricaded and completely isolated from the rest of the world by the huge mountains formed by the crater that we inhabit. Some say the remains of the…

Can our love last forever? Can our love for grandparents last forever? Even though we might not always see our grandparents we should always love them. In literature there is a universal theme about it. In the folktale “The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson” retold by Leo TolStoy, it talks about how we could love them even after hurting them. In Sandra Cisneros Poem “Abuelito Who” she shows love to her grandfather that is gone. So these two stories have the same universal theme.…

Merideth Monk. Going so far, in one instance, as to create a picket line at the premiere of German composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Originale on Sept. 8th, 1964. This particular event was very divisive within the Fluxus movement and called into question the allegiance of many of the artist who crossed the line (wikipedia.com/Fluxus). This anti-art aesthetic produced such works, as “Ice Cream Piece 1966” by Albert M. Fine: performer buys an ice cream cone, then a) eats it b) gives it to a…

I will analyze How the Grinch Stole Christmas through Marxist criticism, which is based on economic class, wealth, and social systems. This poem was written in third person by Dr. Seuss, and it describes the Who’s in Who-ville celebrating Christmas. In this poem, it was evident that Who-ville lived under communism because they all celebrate similarly, treated one another equally, and it was evident that in Who-ville no one was left out. “Then the Whos, young and old, would sit down to a feast…

Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, there are many ways in which Ebenezer Scrooge is redeemed by Jacob Marley’s ghost and the three Christmas Spirits. The novel’s setting starts in London where there are serious world problems lurking. Dickens, throughout the novel, does not stray far from showing the importance of maintaining good humanity in one’s lifetime. Dickens depicts this through the main character, Scrooge, showing his redemption from the beginning and end of the novel. This…

by Charles Dickens, is a beloved tale that people of all ages have loved for its emotional and moral appeal. It is a story focusing on the life of Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy and cold-hearted money-lender, who is visited by four ghostly apparitions who convince him together to change his merciless ways. At the beginning of this tale, Scrooge does not recognize the effects of his greed, so the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future take it upon themselves to show him how much his greed can…

Christmas Carol, the thought of people changing their ways for the better is expressed, throughout this story. In this novella Scrooge, the protagonist, is a dynamic character, and his grand change is from the doing of three ghosts. Scrooge evolved and became a generous person by overcoming greed. He was very greedy. A man asked him if he would like to donate to the poor, and Scrooge replied no, in the rudest manner possible. "'Are there no prisons?'... 'And the Union work houses.' 'I help…

audience. In A Christmas Carol, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, is visited by a spirit and three ghosts. The spirit symbolizes what Scrooge may become, while the ghosts symbolize Scrooge’s past, present, and future. All of these supernatural beings help Scrooge to realize he must change his hard heart. On the night of Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge and Marley owned a firm together before the death of the…

Ebenezer Scrooge, faces grueling memories and future experiences that will help determine if he, a crotchety, unkind man, will attain true ecstasy or not. Before the help of spirits, Scrooge thought the only possible way to reach his euphoria was all the wealth and riches he could accumulate over the years.…

that motivates me by fear to never drink and drive. Seeing Tiny Tim’s empty crutch, seeing a gravestone with his name, and seeing people sell his things motivated Scrooge to change. Charles Dickens’ timeless story, A Christmas Carol, has been adapted into countless stories, plays and movies. In Israel Horovitz’s A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, we see Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformative moments highlighted and placed…