Changes In A Christmas Carol

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Curious to find out about what happened to Christmas?A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a novella about Past, Present, and Christmas Yet to Come spirits that can change the cheapest, mislead heart. Ebenezer Scrooge the protagonist is against everything that has to do with Christmas. He doesn’t want to have to spend money when he does not get a profit from it. He also doesn’t like all the caroling that goes on around the holidays.

The Ghost of Christmas Past. The heavy bell had rung twelve times. The first spirit had come. Ebenezer was face to face with the spirit. The spirit, “It was like a small child. Its hair was white-- and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it. the arms were very long and muscular, and the hands looked uncommonly strong. it's legs and feet were bare. It wore clothes of the purest white; around its waist was a shiny belt. It held a branch of fresh green holly in its hand.” The ghost had held his hand out to show Scrooge’s own Christmas past. Scrooge started to cry when he had gone to his birthplace. He had …show more content…

The phantom did not speak at all. “They went next into an obscure part of the town, where the streets were dirty, the shops and houses needed paint, and the people were badly dressed and ugly… The floor was covered with piles of rusty keys, nails chains, hinges, files, scales, weights and scraps of iron. ““He is passed changing his mind, "said her husband. “He is dead.”” “There lay something covered up. Then a pale light fell upon the bed: and on it, unwatched and uncared for was the body of a man.” They were talking about Scrooge. He had learned that to make his life happy in the end he had to enjoy the present first.

Scrooge learned a lot of lessons and started to enjoy Christmas again. One lesson that he had learned was to turn his life around and be happier with life. He also learned that what the third spirit had shown him would happen if he did not change his life

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