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Compare And Contrast Scrooge And Lopez

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Redemption and Transformation can occur in the instance that the individual wants to be saved. Although Scrooge and Pedro Alonso Lopez are both considered as bad people, they both differ in that Scrooge starts to do wrong things assuming that what he is doing is for the greater good. While Lopez does wrong things for the satiation of his own macabre pleasure. This topic is comparing two individuals, one who has the capacity to be loved and saved, and one who rejects any notion of any sort of redemption. Scrooge is an individual who has quite a few weak points, and insecurity is one of them. His main incentive in the beginning is that he does not want to be in poverty, this invariably leads to his fear of insecurity, and he finds a solution. To get enough money to keep him far away from the fear of poverty, doing anything to provide stability throughout his whole life, the outcome of this is …show more content…

Lopez killed over 300 young girls, in cold blooded murder; given numerous chances to change he just used these chances to continue with his crimes. For instance after attempting to capture an Indian girl, the tribe was furious and set on killing him, having captured him they were about to kill him when a French female missionary convinced them to hand him over to the authorities, however the police did not have him as an suspect on anything so since they also did not really have anything against him and they didn’t care about what happened with the Indians, they set him free. When questioned he boasted of what he did and even when he got told he was going to be set free, he said that the moment of death was enthralling and exciting, and that when he was set free that he could not wait for that feeling again. As compared to Scrooge, he could not be saved due to him not being willing to change for the

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