Brief Summary Of Scrooge's A Christmas Carol

At the beginning of stave four a ghost, presumably of the ghost of Christmas future, approached Scrooge saying nothing and yet Scrooge is feeling uneasy and terrified of this ghost while knowing what it’s going to do. The apparition does nothing until Scrooge asks if he will show him the future after Christmas so in turn the ghost nods its’ head ever so slightly to where you can see that it did. They awkwardly do nothing for a moment before the phantom points his hand forward and Scrooge responds for him to lead onward so the ghost moves backwards and he follows the specter which transports him to the city where only he can see and hear the people but they can’t see or hear him. The phantasm stops Scrooge next to a group of businessmen talking about an elderly person who apparently had a vast quantity of money saved up.

The ghost then moves on to two people meeting and they mention someone called “Old Scratch” who died during the night. Him and the apparition leave the two men conversing and heads to an obscure part of town. The specter walks into a building with Scrooge trailing behind to see people give item to an undertaker for money, nevertheless they see the people hand items to the undertaker with one going as far as to take the bed sheets from under the dead body. Scrooge sees and hears everything while completely horrified by what he is watching. He tells the ghost, he knows the possibility it might be him. Knowing this, scrooge is now shaking and pleading that it’s not him. The apparition teleports them to a bed with the bedsheets taken off and Scrooge seeing this gets away from the bed in terror. Terrifyingly the ghost points to the head of the body on the