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    Marley, has died. Scrooge is an old man that hates happiness and Christmas. Today happens to be Christmas Eve. While Scrooge is sitting at his desk, his nephew, Fred, comes in the door singing carols. Ebenezer is not very happy about it. Fred proceeds to ask his uncle to attend his party tomorrow but is quickly turned down. Once he leaves, Scrooge turns to his clerk, Bob Cratchit, and gives him the day off paid, which he claims as the one day a year Cratchit can rob him. Scrooge is also visited…

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    a grating voice, and a wiry chin. Old Mr. Scrooge is a gloomy, hateful, moody, thoughtless old man that can’t stand anything that is bright, cheerful, charming, or pleasant. When Scrooge is hateful he has a good reason to be, the reason Scrooge is so hateful is because Marley died so he feels lonesome and miserable.I feel as though Scrooge has depression or a type of anxiety because he changes his mood a lot and he’s normally sad.On the other hand Scrooge could be bipolar which is when you have…

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    avaricious, mean, cold hearted man named Ebenezer Scrooge. He lived in London, England. And he hated Christmas more than anything. He thought that Christmas was humbug. The only thing he hated more than Christmas was love. And while the city prepared for christmas, singing christmas carols and buying food and presents for Christmas was the next day, Scrooge remained in his counting house. His nephew went to see him to invite him to a christmas dinner. But Scrooge although he was rich he was…

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    Ebenezer Scrooge was a grouchy man every day even at Christmas. He was filled with greed and meanness all he really carried about was money. One night he was visited by three ghost. The three ghost were the the ghost of Christmas past, Ghost of Christmas present, and the Ghost of Christmas future. But I believe that he was most touched by the ghost of Christmas future. He touched him the most because he scared him, Showed what people thought about him, and showed him his death bed. The…

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    In this extract we see how horrible and selfish Scrooge is. We get an insight in how Scrooge looks, and therefore what he is like as a person too. As a whole, the extract makes Scrooge seem isolated and rude, and that he only cares for money and no one else. There is lots of imagery in this extract which tells us about Scrooge. For example, ‘hard and sharp as a flint’ suggests that his personality is grey and dull. Also it could suggest that his heart is rock hard and almost impossible to melt.…

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    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 warm-hearted man and is loved by…

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    Scrooge and His Moral Dilemma It could be argued that Charles Dickens meant to raise aristocratic awareness for England’s poor and the plight they suffered 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…

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    life of Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge is a mean spirited old man who only cares about himself, and his money He has little concern about any of his surrounding or the people in his life. In the story Scrooge is visited three unlikely guests, they are the ghosts of Christmas past, present and the yet to come or the future. As a result of these visits Scrooge turns his life around and finds the true meaning of Christmas. The ghost of Christmas past is the first ghost to visit Scrooge. This ghost a…

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    of Stave 1, he makes the Stave full of energy as when Scrooge wakes up he is suddenly buzzing with energy and is as “light as a feather” and runs to the window where a young boy is shocked to know that Scrooge doesn’t know what day it is. Scrooge pays the boy to get the poultries and to buy the prize turkey which he delivers to Bob Cratchits as anonymous. The Stave is significant to the story as it shows that if someone as miserly as Scrooge can change it means that anyone can change which is…

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    cold-hearted man who despises Christmas. His name was Ebeneezer Scrooge. Scrooge's partner in business, Marley, died on Christmas Eve, seven years pass, and the very night Marley visits him in ghost form, is Christmas Eve. Marley says that he will be visited by three ghosts, that will help him change his ways before it is too late, the ghost of Christmas Past, the ghost of Christmas Present, and the ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Scrooge first accompanies the ghost of Christmas Past, to see…

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