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    to someone who doesn’t like Christmas? Or have you ever seen the movie “A Christmas Carol” with Ebenezer Scrooge. In the movie "A Christmas Carol" is the main character Scrooge he is a man who hates Christmas and know one knows why. So now Scrooge is going to have three ghost's come and visit him, The Spirit Of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet To Come. These spirits will try to redirect Scrooge to a better path than the one he recently had taken, greed doesn’t bring happiness.…

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    The principal purposes of this essay is to analysis the development of the character Scrooge and evaluate the language techniques and practices demonstrated in the novels text. In addition, to this investigation, we will also reconnaissance the similarities between Dickens personal experiences and that of the characters. Furthermore we will take a brief look at how dickens uses his characters to express his beliefs at a subconscious level. In order for the reader to genuinely understand the…

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    visible of the spirit was it’s outstretched hand pointing Scrooge the path he had to take. Scrooge decided to go on a different path one time when he was with the mysterious spirit. The spirit didn’t follow Scrooge and remind where it was. While we go through our life we can follow any path we chose, there will always be a path that is instructed to us but we are free to make a quick dash to the path that provokes our curiosity deeply. Scrooge makes his way back to the spirit with questions that…

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    they would rather die,’ said scrooge, ‘they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population,”(Dickens 6). This quote comes from a book written by, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol where charity beggars were asking scrooge if he would like to give money to charity and scrooge responded with the quote. Scrooge who is the main character works at a counting house and he is an older man. Scrooge has a clerk named Bob Cratchit who is a poor family man. Scrooge gets visited by three…

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    In the short story “A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley” by: Israel Horovitz, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge changes a lot. One way Scrooge changes is that he becomes a generous person after being greedy. Another way Scrooge changes is he becomes a happy person after being a gloomy, mean person. These are just two of many ways Ebenezer Scrooge changes in the story. Scrooge is greedy with his money in the beginning of the story but that all changes when he looks at his co-worker Bob…

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    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 death. Repeatedly. But this does not stop Scrooge, Marley’s only friend and main character of this story…

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    Changes That Give a Chance For Better Charles Dickens’ classic story, A Christmas Carol, is about a man named Ebeneezer Scrooge, who is old and greedy. He lives a life of stinginess and misery because of his own extreme greed. Scrooge is mean to everyone, especially around Christmas. He is visited by three ghosts who show him his past, present, and future. Scrooge comes to realize that he has used money to escape his fears of poverty and loneliness. He learns that he has the ability to change…

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    How is Scrooge presented in a Christmas Carol - What is he like? Are we sympathetic to him? Does he change? What language features are used to do this? Ebenezer Scrooge This essay is looking at the character, Ebenezer Scrooge throughout…

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    Have you ever see ghosts that showed you the future, present, and past. Well, Scrooge has seen a ghost! Scrooge was scared of the first ghosts. It is his old CO worker warning him to listen to the ghost carefully, or he will become like him in a couple of days. Scrooge was starting to freak out when the second ghost scared him to death. The ghost showed him his friends and his girlfriend and how he treated him. After he sat in his chair, the third ghost watched his CO worker celebrate…

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    Do you think he will change? In the book Ebenezer Scrooge was a grump, stingy, mean man all he cares about is his money! In the novel Scrooge thinks his business is all about his money instead of caring for others. In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens shows us that one’s business is helping and taking care of others through the three ghosts. Scrooge's business in Stave 1 is all about his money. For example Scrooge doesn’t want to give his clerk a day off for Christmas with his family. On page…

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