Ebenezer Scrooge Change In A Christmas Carol

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Do you believe a person can change? Well, in the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol” we see Ebenezer Scrooge change from a cold and heartless old man to a warm soul ready to spread Christmas joy. In the exposition of the plot we are introduced to Scrooge a miser as people call him, a cold and heartless man. He runs the business Scrooge & Marley’s. But his partner Marley is dead, seven years dead to be exact. On Christmas eve, he is visited by his nephew, the nephew wishes him a merry Christmas, and scrooge to that replies “Bah! Humbug!” ‘Christmas a humbug” the nephew answers, after arguing some more, Scrooge states “What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and

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