He starts to comprehend his harsh behaviours and asks the spirit to 'conduct [him] where you will. I went forth last night on compulsion, and I learnt a lesson…let me profit by it.' The spirit, through Dickens, transports Scrooge to view an affectionate scene during Christmas with the Cratchits, where Tiny Tim's feeble self is seated next to his father. Scrooge feels miserable for the family even though they are 'happy [and] grateful' because it was Christmas time and are always 'pleased with one another and contented with the time'. Dickens, through the Spirit of Christmas Present, has also used caricatures to juxtapose with Scrooge's characterization by revealing that even though on the 'dismal reef of sunken rocks' and in isolation, the lonely men at the lighthouse still 'wished each other Merry Christmas…and struck up a sturdy song', which shows Scrooge that no matter where people are, Christmas is a time for…
Scrooge witnesses the effect Tiny Tim’s death had on Bob Cratchit’s family. Ebenezer Scrooge discerns that no one will mourn his own…
If Scrooge kept his terrible ways he would keep living a lonely and sad life. If he kept be so terrible he will die alone with no friends and family to be there with him when his final hours come. Since he became kind he got to spend time with his nephew on Christmas. He will now be joyful for the rest of his life because he changed. To people out there who have the same mindframe as Scrooge…
n A Christmas Carol , Charles Dickens tells a story of a grumpy old man called Ebenezer Scrooge who hates the idea and sight of Christmas. He presents this story in the form of a novel in which he shares the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge from hating christmas to loving it and spending it with his family and friends and being the most joyful person.…
When two charity representatives approach Scrooge and ask for donations to help “give the poor some meat and…
He starts to see how some families “lived in horrible conditions” (The Industrial Revolution and the Changing Face of Britain). Notably, Scrooge starts to feel repentance towards his actions once he sees Tiny Tim. In the novel, Tiny Tim is ill, showing one of the many problems of the poor, ordinary people: “poverty, poor housing, ill health, a horrifying level of child mortality, hunger, and long hours of grinding labor” (Characteristics of Victorian Britain). In spite of this, Tiny Tim still symbolized the poor people, who had hope and were grateful for what they had. We see an instance of this in Stave 3 of the book when Tiny Tim proposed in the toast, “God bless every one of us!”…
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens shows the theme that anyone can become a better person if they look upon their past. The reader learns that even someone like Scrooge can become a great man. At the beginning of the story, Ebenezer Scrooge is a greedy, rude man. On pages 17 and 18 he refuses to donate any of his money (Which he has plenty of) to the poor.…
In the text it states, “There was nothing very cheerful and the climate or the town and yet there was an air, of cheerfulness abroad.” (60). This supports the topic sentence by showing that Scrooge was cheerful while he was taking care of others, especially Tiny Tim. When Tiny Tim was hurt, Scrooge carried him around all happy, cheerful and joyful. Another piece of evidence that was found was, “Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, it was overcome with penitence and grief.”…
The novel A Christmas Carol is a well-loved classic that will leave you coming back for more, but what is the true meaning of A Christmas Carol? In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens shows that one’s business in life is that One must change before it is too late, through Scrooge’s experiences. Through Scrooge’s character development, Dickens teaches the reader that one’s true business is money. Scrooge’s definition of man’s business in stave I is, money. In the passage it states, “ It’s not my business, scrooge returned, It's enough for a man to understand his own business and not to interfere with other people’s.…
In Charles Dickens's masterpiece, "A Christmas Carol" he narrates a unique perspective of true joy, gladness, and happiness to his readers through the perspective of a cantankerous, reserved, irritable old man, this man is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve in order to reveal the true meaning of Christmas to man loathing happiness altogether. The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is the most influential spirit, although silent, his actions speak, although mysterious, the phantom puts the last puzzle piece in place and everything finally becomes clear as day. Silently the spirit takes the man, Scrooge, through a whirlwind of depression, he sees the effects of a death of rich man ripple through the city. Scrooge sees the hustle and bustle…
He has always thought all the riches he had was equivalent to his happiness. After all, Scrooge is taken to the present day at the Cratchit establishment. There he was to see the desperation of that family that he has an enormous impact on. He could help or devastate a whole team of people with the snap of his old, wrinkled fingers. He was also faced with vast amounts of trouble The Cratchit’s with their crippled son Tiny Tim.…
He is taken to see how the others celebrate Christmas. There is a noticeable change in Scrooge's attitude when he learns that Bob Cratchit's ill son, Tiny Tim will die. He begs the spirit, ' Oh no, kind Spirit! Say he will be spared' This does not sound like the cruel, hardhearted man that the story began with.…
In the beginning story Ebenezer Scrooge is a greedy man and a mean person who does not care to if, what he does with his money hurts other people. In between the middle and the end of the story Scrooge became a caring and charitable person who was happy to give to other people. This story shows the change in Ebenezer Scrooge from a bad, greedy, and hateful man to a good and charitable man. Scrooge had been…
The spirit then took him to the cemetery to show him a headstone that said “ Here Lays Ebenezer Scrooge” and he didn't quite understand what had happened to him and why he died and so Scrooge felt sacred of what was going to happen next and when Scrooge was looking over into the ground the spirit then went up behind him and pushed him when he hit the bottom he then woke up in his room. In conclusion Scrooge began to think that if he was going to miserable he was not going to enjoy his life in the future and he might not have want to see Tiny Tim die and the fact that everyone didn’t care that he died and that the maids and cook were trying to sell his stuff and no feeling at all sad that he died might make a little bit…