How Does Ebenezer Scrooge Change In The Striped Christmas Carol

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The movie, A Muppets Christmas Carol is based on Charles Dickens Christmas
Carol novel. The theme of the story is how you're supposed to be nice don't be mean or greedy and just be in the moment. Your life experiences make you who you, but change is possible. Ebenezer Scrooge is a good example. Ebenezer Scrooge was a very mean and greedy person, but when he sees the ghost of Christmas past he sees his old self and he sees that he used to be really happy with his life. But then he got a girlfriend and he gets a job, but then he started to carry more and more about his money so he yelled at her one day and she left him. Then the ghost of Christmas present shows scrooge what he has been doing to people so he gets sad for the son of bob

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