The Muppet Christmas Carol

“A Christmas Carol” Applied to Today A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a novel that changes a person’s perspective on helping ‘mankind’. Marley, a former friend and partner of Scrooge, visits Scrooge in the night to confront his poor contribution to improve mankind. The ghost of Marley is unable to rest until he has visited his “fellow-men” (Dickens, 13). Scrooge is then visited by three ghosts: the past, present, and future. Feelings of realization burst and his heart becomes filled with…

“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens and takes an apparent theme through the book. The concept of charity changes the main character Ebenezer Scrooge and his holiday spirit throughout a short time period. When Scrooge wasn't willing to donate to charity she was a bitter and rude old man. Throughout the three days where Christmas spirits visited him, he gained Christmas spirit and donated to charity which made him and overall happier person. In the beginning of the novel “A Christmas…

Ebenezer Scrooge We are gathered here today to mourn the loss of Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge was 61 years young when he deceased. He bit the dust 3 months after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. He was born January 15th 1835 in London. When Scrooge laid to rest he left his fortune to his nephew Fred. Ebenezer spent most of his time reading at school.The family Scrooge had during his childhood were his sister Fan and and his father.When Scrooge was younger were younger he worked for a…

the pursuit of wealth!” (Dickens, Charles.) From the words of Ebenezer Scrooge, we see that society in England during Charles Dickens’s life despises the poor and harshly judges the rich who seek more fortune. Set in the Hungry Forties, A Christmas Carol portrays a time of famine, hunger, workhouses, and innocent people thrown into jails. Dickens uses his characters’ difficult lives to create awareness of the struggles of the less fortunate and the lack of useful assistance to help them. …

of Cratchit’s anxious tone. “Well, throughout the year, Bob and I managed to whip up some money for you! Others who finally realized that they needed to repay you also donated some money to you. We came here to deliver it to you tonight as our Christmas present. It is now our time to repay you for everything you have given all of us. Why, even the baker donated some of his profits!” Fred exclaimed cheerfully. Scrooge got up and received the sack of money for his nephew and clerk. “Thank…

I believe that I fully embody the four qualities of scholarship, leadership, service, and character that are necessary to be qualified as a member of the National Honor Society. I feel that one of my strongest qualities of these four is scholarship. I feel that this is one of my strongest qualities because I love to learn and help others grow in their learning. I have maintained a 3.94 GPA throughout my past 5 semesters at this school and I have participated in many AP and Honors classes such…

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 and voices his dismay at having to give his only employee, Bob Cratchit, the day of Christmas off. Scrooge wishes to pass the evening and Christmas day, in…

words such as "luscious", "cherry-cheeked", "seething" and "delicious", Dickens makes the food literally leap out of the page and make the readers mouth water. He is describing all the traditional food you have at Christmas and is making the point that Christmas is a time to feast and be merry. At this point, Scrooge slips in the comment that the Ghost's family -consisting of more than eighteen hundred brothers- must be "a tremendous family to provide for". We see…

where people are generally a lot more altruistic with one another. However, a person who truly shows the spirit of Christmas is if they are truly altruistic, in which a person makes sure they improving the welfare of others without the pretense of fame or glory attach to it. In the article “The Two Moralities of Ebenezer Scrooge,” Dwight R. Lee discusses the two morality A Christmas Carol presents: mundane and magnanimous morality. He writes that though Scrooge is not doing anything wrong, per…

Music is a symbol in both “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, and in “The Old Nurse’s Story” by Elizabeth Gaskell. Music becomes a way to showcase that there is a problem within the households of the characters, Ebenezer Scrooge, from “A Christmas Carol,” and Miss Furnivall from “The Old Nurse’s Story”. In both stories the music played, centres on families and is shared through supernatural means. This later highlights the idea that both characters have behaved wrongly towards their families…