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    Charles Dickens’s main character in “A Christmas Carol”. This play is about the story of a man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who was greedy, loved money, and had a heart that was hardened toward Christmas. Charles Dickens wrote this story to help expose the suffering of the poor and to convince readers that conditions need to be corrected. Through the visitations of three spirits, Scrooge learned why he had become greedy, how much he had missed out on by avoiding Christmas, and that he was capable of becoming

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    A Christmas Carol, a novella written by Charles Dickens, goes through the story of a seemingly bad man by the name of Ebenezer Scrooge. Throughout the story, Dickens gives the audience a greater understanding of why Scrooge is the way he is. One theme that occurs in the novella is social exclusion. Dickens uses a physical, a parallel, and a product symbol to enhance this theme. Dickens employs these symbols to enhance the thematic focus of social exclusion and its impact on Scrooge. The physical

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    In the movie a Christmas carol scrooge is visited by 3 ghost that showed his past,present and future.scrooge hated Christmas because be cause his partner Jacob Marley died on that very day seven years ago scrooge is also very heartless to the people who want to help him his nephew even invited him to dine with them for Christmas he said no his nephew loved Christmas but scrooge did not . Scrooge is visited by Jacob and he tells scrooge he will be Haunted by 3 spirits the first on shows him

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    A Christmas Carol Stave 1: Scrooge’s character is established early in stave 1. Dickens shows his popularity by showing us his relationships with people in his surroundings. We can tell scrooge is unpopular as the narrator portrays him as a “Tight fisted hand at the grindstone.” Scrooges name give us a similarity between the word scrounge what is to be tight with money and every opportunity to make money, this automatically helps us launch an understanding that he is tight with his

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    apart of life. So in "A Christmas Carol" at around Stave 2, Ebenezer Scrooge was visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past, he was the first of the three spirits that would visit Scrooge later on in the story. He would take Scrooge to Christmas scenes of Scrooge's childhood and youth, which would bring him back old memories old that reminded him of a time when he was nice. These scenes portray Scrooge's lonely childhood, his relationship with his beloved sister Fan and a Christmas party hosted by his first

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    marriage and gender roles. In the case of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens wants readers to see how living a life that radiates love and promotes happiness is better than being selfish and living a miserable life, and how past circumstances heavily influence who we are as people. The two messages both authors want readers to take away from the story, although different, achieve the takeaway through the utilization first person narration. Furthermore, the narration in these stories also consists

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    A Christmas Carol was published relatively early in his career, appearing in 1843 when Dickens was 31. The tale is one of a series of short stories on a subject that had long preoccupied its author: the importance of celebrating Christmas. One of Dickens's earliest published works was a defense of this holiday against its enemies, both religious, and irreligious. The former objected to the pagan unseemliness of feasting and frolicking in celebration of the birth of Christ. The latter objected to

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    Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol” Written by Charles Dickens. Ebenezer Scrooge is a horrible man who is haunted by three spirits overnight in hopes to make a new man out of the old miser. Throughout this story, Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by three spirits ,Christmas present, past, and future, and during this time he learns about his greed, what joy he missed on christmas, and that he had a chance to become better. During the first haunting Scrooge was haunted by The Ghost Of Christmas Past. In this

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    Symbolism is when we use an image or thing to represent another idea. It is very important in the play “A Christmas Carol” and is used every day. In the play they use the three ghost as symbolism for example the ghost of Christmas past symbolised a kind of happy character because she is dressed in light colors and she shows him his past which made him happy and cries tears of joy, the ghost of Christmas future represents darkness because he shows all the bad things that are about to happen if he does not

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    Scrooge goes through an amazing journey in one night to see if he can change his fate at the end of his life. The Christmas Carol explains in a creative effective way for you to be happy, nice and giving person.. Scrooge’s doesn’t want to end with the chains weighing him down for eternity like Marley so he has to change his way that he is living his life. By analyzing Scrooge’s Transformation, Childhood Innocence, and Social Justice; it becomes clear that without these three themes the book would

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