Marley And Scrooge In A Christmas Carol

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Marley and Scrooge - the firm, known as Scrooge and Marley - although the sign hasn't changed since Marley’s death, the one thing that had worsened is the personality of Scrooge, the tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! On page two, I noticed the author says Scrooge has an insufficient fire for keeping himself warm, but the clerk’s fire (Bob Cratchit) was so indubitable small that it looked like one coal. Everyone knew Scrooge throughout the community to be an unpleasant friend to be around, in that his attitude is unacceptable and he is disrespectful to others. Consequently, he is all head and no heart, as explained within the text. Scrooge had absolutely no room …show more content…

According to the text, The Ghost of Christmas Past will be the first spirit to come talk to Scrooge. After visiting with the Ghost of Christmas Past, Scrooge was surprised to see that the spirit was soft and gentle. They flew together to a place where there was an open country road, fields on both sides, the city vanished, from what Scrooge said, the darkness vanished with the city, cold and there was snow on the ground. Also, wherever the ghost took him, Scrooge said that he was a boy there, the ghost said “Your lip is trembling. And what is upon your cheek?” He spotted ponies with boys on the back, as time went by, more boys appeared until the air was full of music, Scrooge knew every single one and as they went past, his heart leaped and he was full with gladness. The Ghost of Christmas Past brought Scrooge's heart back to him, when he showed Scrooge all the ghost saying Merry Christmas to each other instead of saying, “Bah! Humbug!” Scrooge is in a room where there were more kids than adults. He was having a hard time counting, because every child was counting itself like …show more content…

This spirit is going to show Scrooge the shadows of the things that have not happened, but the shadows that this spirit will show Scrooge are things that will happen in the time before them. Scrooge is used to a lot of ghostly company, but this ghost is different than any other ghost that has come to talk to him, this ghost scared Scrooge so much that his legs were trembling beneath him and he could hardly stand when he was prepared to follow it. The ghost gave Scrooge some time to recover his legs trembling. Scrooge said to the ghost, “Ghost of the Future! I fear you more than any spectre I have ever seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?” The ghost didn’t answer Scrooge and the hand was pointed straight before them. Scrooge was listening to people talk about someone dead and he soon found out that they were talking about him. There was a den, and it had a low-browed, beetling shop, below the den there was a penthouse roof, there iron, old rag, bones, bottles, and greasy offal were bought. This ghost wants to help Scrooge become happy like all the other spirits wanted Scrooge to be

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