Compare And Contrast A Christmas Carol

Is the movie anything like the book? Charles Dickens is a tremendous author. He has wrote many stories like Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and David Copperfield. He has wrote many other stories. A Christmas Carol is one of his most famous books, was the most successful book of the 1843 holiday season, by Christmas it sold six thousand copies and it continued to be popular into the new year (https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/christmas-carol/ ). A Christmas Carol has been remade into motion picture and there are similarities and differences. Both mediums of the story had many similarities. The first similarity is that they both included the blind man's dogs knowing who Scrooge was and making their owner go into a different direction when they saw him. In the book on page 3 it states ¨ Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug theirs into doorways and up courts¨. In the movie the dogs noticed Mr.Scrooge and it seemed that they pulled the owner off to the right to stay out of his

The first difference is in the book Marley's face is on the door knocker but then later vanishes and Scrooge goes inside without anything happening to him, but in the movie you see Scrooge reaching out to touch it and he gets scared by ghost screaming. Another difference is in the book it states on page 13 ¨...passed into the room before his eyes. Upon its coming in...¨ Makes you believe Marley's ghost just passed through the doorway. But in the movie it shows boxes with chains being thrown into the room passing right through the door and then you see Marley's ghost. Then, another difference between the book and the movie is in the opening scene of the movie , in Scrooge's office Scrooge says to his nephew ¨I will see you in hell first¨. But in the book it was never written in, when that phrase was written into the movie it did show the full emotion of