Isolation In Stave Annotation

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 not have the same outcome or meaning.

I believe Scrooge is so hateful because of the loss of Marley 7 years ago. The theme of the second stave is regret. Throughout this whole stave Scrooge showed regret. When talking about a contract to his previous fiance which he did not marry said, “Our contract is an old

people like Cratchet’s family suffer, and he feels like, thanks to him, there is no happiness. In the

ln his life what he finds content with is material items such as money and wealth. He would rather be alone and cut people out from his own life and any association with his family and friends. That's why he lives a cold and dark life. But the Ghost Of Christmas Presents shows him the loving joyful side of life and evokes peace inside Scrooges heart. You can quickly sum up The Ghost Of Christmas present by this quote "free as its genial face, its sparkling eye,its open hand, its cheery voice". This quote gives a true depiction of how gleeful and cheerful the Ghost Of Christmas Present is and how he would change Scrooges life for the better. The Ghost Of Christmas Yet to come represents consequence and the slippery slope of the path that Scrooge is in if he is still living in the same path and making the same decisions. The Ghost Of Christmas Yet To Come also represents heaven and hell and overall symbolizes death and shows Scrooge the consequence of his action and the repercussion he'll have if he's still living in the same wrong path. He brings fear and intimidation to Scrooge and shows Scrooge his consequence and

He also told him to come to work early the next day. Later in the novel Marley's face appears on his doorknocker. This could show that Scrooge does care about Marley as he looked behind him when he goes into his house. It is visible in the house, that Scrooge was very strict with his money and did not spend it on himself.

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is the story of a miserly old man and his encounter with three Spirits, which leads to his dramatic transformation. Ebenezer Scrooge’s only consideration is earning money, and he gives no thought to the general welfare. On Christmas Eve, Marley, his dead business partner, visits him and warns Ebenezer about his impending fate if he does not change his ways. Marley offers Scrooge hope in the form of three Spirits, and as he visits Christmas Past, Present, and Future, he experiences a change of heart. Scrooge lives an immoral life of greed and hard-heartedness until he must face the consequences of his sins of omission, leading him to become more generous and kind.

Scrooge lost his companionship with other humans. Through all of the struggles that these people are faced with on a day to day biases, at the end of the day, they have each other. Companionship helps these people cope with the pain of everyday life and its struggles. The miners, lighthouse keepers, sailors, and to an end, a great percentage of the population, understand that Christmas is a time for joy, happiness, and love. Christmas is a time in which people come together despite their own personal problems to bring happiness and joy to each other through companionship. With all of Scrooges wealth and security, he has lost all companionship with others; furthermore, losing a part of his humanity. At the beginning of “A Christmas Carol”, Scrooges

The film adaptation of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, has led a life of greed and selfishness due to his circumstances as a child. His contemptuous and derisive attitude toward others often renders him the outcast of the town in which he lives in. On many occasions he proves himself to be uncharitable and unwilling to be lenient to give Bob Cratchit, a abused and underpaid man who works for Scrooge, any extra time off or pay on Christmas. When the two business owners came by Scrooge’s workplace to ask for money to donate to charity, he profusely refused their efforts to get him to provide any and shooed them away. All of these qualities only added to his negative social standing. People feared him and often avoided him due to his pessimistic demeanor. Even with this attitude, characters Bob Cratchit and Fred, who is Scrooge’s nephew, take pity on him and want the best for him because they can empathise with him. When Mrs. Cratchit starts to praise Scrooge in a negative light, Bob strays away from the subject and wills the subject to drop because it was Christmas, and people should be thankful for what they have. Another instance is when the Ghost of Christmas Present showed him Fred talking to the rest of his family, and despite after making fun of him, he chose to cheer to him in his honor. This is because he forgave Scrooge for his actions due to the fact that he pitied him and

Following this bitter blow, the Ghost of Christmas Present leads Scrooge on a tour of two more families: that of his nephew and of his clerk. The vision of Scrooge’s clerk’s family – the Cratchits – paints an intricate example of the beauty of family. As Dickens explains, “They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty… But they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the times…” (page 54). The Cratchits possessed minimal earthly wealth, and even had an ill son, yet they displayed incredible joy! The joy, warmth, affection, and laughter surrounding the Cratchits’ Christmas celebration brought Scrooge to the realization that the “Christmas spirit” does not depend on any material possessions, or even on situations. Joy is a choice, and that choice is made easier when we are surrounded by the ones we love.

The text explicitly states Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous, old sinner has passed away. According to the text, he despises many things such as happiness, humor, and even Christmas. From the reading, I know that he is depressed all the time, consequently his mental state has led him to call other people stupid, dumb, and idiots. On page three, in the conversation with his nephew Fred, Scrooge insults his nephew about marrying and loving his wife. The text states, that he also “seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the frost and even more congenial frost.” From the reading I know that Scrooge isn’t a people person and is very down about life. Based on the text he doesn’t really like being around them. For example Scrooge didn’t donate any money to the poor, and blew off his nephew about spending Christmas with them. In the text it states that there is no wind as bare as Scrooge, this means he doesn't really care or doesn't have many feelings.

. . Scrooge doesn't want to spend an extra cent even on heating, another circumstance I read from the text is his nephew bursts in and says, “La-la-la, Merry Christmas!” Scrooge says, “Bah! Humbug!” The over the hill Penny Pincher doesn't want to manufacture a killing and get up and go to a Christmas dinner with his nephew; his afterthought is sorrowful, he doesn’t think that Christmas is a requirement. Scrooge doesn't know what the point of Christmas is, the point of Christmas is to celebrate Jesus’ birthday, he also is unquestionable disrespectful because he calls everyone else an idiot and jerk for not being depressed, Scrooge thinks others have to fill down and depressed because he is. Scrooge thinks he has no choice to manage other people around him for the reason that, they don't do or say what he is

No ghost and no sound. A bright light hits scrooge. He follows it to the next room and sees the ghost from Christmas present. He tells scrooge to touch his robe. They ended up in the city on Christmas morning. Then the spirit takes him to the home of Bob Crachit's house where he gets to see the family and how hard I is for them to live a poor life. There Christmas feast was merely anything for them to feast on with the little they had. The spirit informs scrooge that even though the family celebrates with contempt one of those chairs will be open next year. He takes him to many other houses in the community to see what Christmas is like to other families. He also shows him two starving children ignorance and want. The ghost takes scrooge back and yet again once more the clock strikes

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a moral tale that depicts the protagonist’s Ebenezer Scrooge’s moral journey from selfishness to redemption. It can be seen that his new found way of life is derived from the desire to be a good man of the community and to assist others such as Tiny Tim. The idea of Scrooge’s transformation not being selfish can also be seen in his aspiration to contribute to the wider community that suffers from a poverty stricken way of life. In addition to this, Scrooge also reforms his way of life in order to feel love and care from family, which satisfied his nephew Fred aswell as himself. However, this selflessness is only to an

Scrooge is an overly grumpy, greedy, curmudgeon, mild, insensitive, thoughtless, dolorous, elderly man who lives in a house all by himself. He has silver, gray hair, a pointed nose, and wiry chin. He acts like a harsh, miserable, lonely, gloomy, and depressed fellow. He also was very unfriendly to those young fellows who were trying to gather donations for the poor. When Scrooge was younger, he was actually very kind and generous to the people around him. Scrooge is very inconsiderate of others, and according to the text on page one, stave one it said that “ No wind blew was bitterer than he”, and he was a person who did not believe in the Christmas spirit until a trio of ghosts shows him his past, present, and future.

Isolation is the main theme of this stave. In this stave, it talks a lot about Scrooge isolating himself from society, and choosing to be alone and miserable . In this particular stave, Christmas is rounding the corner, and this setting is causing Scrooge to be even grouchy and irritable than ever. Dickens makes it very clear in his writing that during the holiday’s is when Scrooge is isolating himself from other people, and staying in his own personal world. On page three, it is written that no one ever came to make conversation with him, no children, no man or woman, not even beggars asked anything of him! The one reason this continued on in his social life, was the fact that he absolutely did not have a care in the world about being alone and isolated from the world around him.