Charles dickens is a famous writer who wrote a Novel called A Christmas Carol; it has a Christmas message for those people who do not appreciate Christmas. The main characters are Scrooge and the Bob Crotchets and his family. Scrooge is a miser and old guy who all always think about profit and subjects to do with money. Scrooge has to transform him self before he causes trouble he has caused enough trouble as it is. The character bob crotchet is a sad man who can’t get medical help for his cripple child tiny Tim because scrooge does not pay him enough. Scrooge has to change to save tiny Tim from dyeing.
On Christmas Eve, three ghosts come and visit him, before the ghosts comes, Morley, Scrooges old partner (who died 7 years ago on Christmas eve) come to see him and warns him to change his behaviour or scrooge will have to suffer the consequences. Scrooge later on discovers that if he does not change his behaviour tiny Tim will die of his cripple ness. Scrooge’s attitude has proved that he his acting horridly and harshly towards people who say Merry Christmas to him. Scrooge is so mean that he replies back to his nephew with such ignorance. Scrooge does not give monkeys if he’s generous or not. All in one night the three ghosts from the past present and future tell and explain to scrooge you have to be kind and caring. Leading on the next part
Scrooge only cares about himself and no one else except his mate Morley who died seven years ago on Christmas Eve. Scrooge never liked any special days to celebrate with joy, scrooge said, ‘bah humbug, what right you have to be merry?’ ‘What reason you have to be merry’scrooge is a hard, cold miser who spends his days counting his profits and wishing the world would leave him alone. He doesn’t believe in charity, and he is certain that those who do are just lazy bums looking for a handout. Scrooge’s entire life is his business and he shuts out his nephew who is the only relative he has. Here is some quote taken from the novel a Christmas Carol,’ Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!’
Jacob Morley scrooge’s old business partner came one night and warned scrooge that if you carry on your life like you’re doing now you will not get a better life after you die. Here are some more quotes, ‘oh! But he was tight fisted hand at the grindstone, scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as a flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self contained, and solitary as an oyster.’ Visiting scrooge on Christmas Eve are 3 ghosts, who show scrooge the errors and mistakes he has done in his past present and future.
What scrooge learns during the visits is that charity love and care is what Christmas is all about and to be with your family will save him from the danger the approaches. I think that before the ghosts arrived scrooge’s behaviour was cruel and critical. The ghost of the Christmas past is just an epitome of contradictions. The ghost has this power, which makes scrooge understand his errors. The ghost has like a ray of light whizzing through his thick skull extinguishing the ray of light when he feels the momentum that he is unable to bear any of the past memories that the sprit has shown him,
By showing scrooge his unleashing and revealing past When scrooge sees his past, the ghost makes him realize that he has changed since he was in his childhood, to a money making freak. Now moving on to ghost o the Christmas present, he is a friendly tall giant who is generous and who shows scrooge, his nephew and the crotchets what they are up to in Christmas. Scrooge’s only nephew Fred and his clerk bob crotchet send him good will. Scrooge either ignores them or says, ‘bah hum bug’. As time passes the ghost gets older because time is close to what it seems.
This is the ghost of the Christmas future, who is a dark gloomy phantom ghost kind of creature, it does not speak but points to tell scrooge about what is going to happen, the creature shows scrooge that he is going to die, and it is a sad scene. Scrooge begs the creatures that can his destiny can be change if he changes his ways towards people but the creature does not answer him. Scrooge is left knowing that he must change and become a new man and become more altruistic personify he is to amend his destiny which the creature exposed to him.
Moving on o tiny Tim, who is bob crotchets crippled son. Tiny Tim is bob crotchets youngest son; he is a lame boy with a cheerful nature despite his disorder. At the church service, Tim hopes that people will look at is disorder and is reminded of how Jesus Christ healed the lamed and blind. Tiny Tim’s guideless disposition impresses scrooge, and when he learns from the ghost of the Christmas present that tiny Tim will die soon, scrooge is upset. The ghost of the Christmas future says, “I see a vacant chair” and he also says, ” I see a crutch without an owner.” Here he is trying to say that tiny Tim will be erased from the life of the crotchet family but will certainly not be forgotten.
This including many other examples in scrooge’s life makes out scrooge a bad person, but in actual fact he is a good man who was neglected as a child, and also not being supported when it came to his career decisions in his recent past. Take for instance when Scrooge was at boarding school, his sister Fran, who is first introduced in this paragraph is Scrooge’s little sister. In this paragraph, Fran comes to collect him home. She says that scrooge’s father is much kinder now than he was before so he is allowed to return. This indicates that Scrooge was not getting on with his father than the normal father-son manner he should be.
Scrooge realises that he is back in his room; he doesn’t know what time or day it is. He looks out of his window and beckons a young boy and asks him what day it is. He says, “why, its Christmas day, sir!” and now Scrooge, much happier now that it shows the kindness is gleaming off of him. Fran, Ebenezer’s Scrooge’s youngest sister whom loved dearly, but died at a young age. This what scrooge said after the ghosts have seen him, ‘I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.
I will live in past present and the future. The spirits of all three thrive within Me.’ it moves to the description of scrooge is that he was such a accumulator that even coldest days, he insisted on saving money by burning less coal as possible. Even on Christmas Eve his clerk bob crotchet suffers through the cold because he is afraid to ask scrooge for more coal. Here is a quote due to his wicked ness. ‘If they would rather die, … they had better decrease the surplus population.’ And after he has changed massively during the encounters of the ghosts and he dresses to see his only nephew who actually respects scrooge and tries to make scrooge believe in Christmas. Scrooge is very happy that he has made a lot of friends and that he has changed in to a new man.
Conclusion
A Christmas carol is a novel written by Charles dickens. It expresses the work ability to surpass the boundaries of the time in which it was remained a popular piece of drama and literature with more than a century after it was first published back in 1836.
