How Did Dickens Prevent Social Change In The Christmas Carol

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Promoting Social Change by Charles Dickens Did Dickens help prevent social change by writing the Christmas Carol? He certainly did, Dickens did help prevent social change by writing the Christmas Carol. I think he did because he wrote his books about social change. He wrote his books with the concern of health, treatment, and well-being of others. He wrote his books with concern because in his days many kids have been suffering and only wealthy people received good treatment. For example, people with money got to go to school and they received a good education, people who are not wealthy had to work. So Dickens tried to teach a lesson to everyone out there. The first reason is in the Christmas Carol, Dickens created a character named Scrooge. Scrooge is supposed to be a rich, greedy, rude and selfish man. No one likes Scrooge because of how greedy he was. Dickens also created three spirits, each spirit teaches Scrooge a lesson. The spirits were sent to scare, threaten and teach him his mistakes which he has done in the past. The first spirit takes him back into his Christmas past. The first spirit wanted to show Scrooge how happy and kinder he was when he was little. The spirit taught him that he needs happiness more in his life. The second …show more content…

Everyone should give back to the community whether it is something small by helping others out or something big to donating to the poor. Anyone could help out the community. For example, in the Christmas Carol Scrooge was approached by two gentlemen who were asking if Scrooge can donate money to the needy and the poor but then Scrooge replies “are there no prisoners?” Scrooge also says “are there no work houses?” and then Scrooge never donated which he should have donated. He didn’t donate but he did help the Cratchets until he was visited by a spirit. He helped the Cratchets by giving his clerk a Cratchet a

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