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Charles dickens A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Ebenezer scrooge… England’s most tightfisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

Ebenezer scrooge is a man who wishes the world would leave him alone. Scrooge is all about business. He says no to the invite from his nephew who is his only relative. But then scrooge got a visit from his old business partner Jacob Marley. He tells Scrooge if he doesn’t change the way he is living he will spend eternity making up for it. Then three ghost visit scrooge and tell him what he has been doing wrong in his life .Scrooge lets out his feeling and learns that charity and love will save him from what Jacob warned him about.

Bob Cratchit is scrooge’s clerk. He is a very kind man. He has a son named Tiny Tim who is very sick but has no money to pay to get him treated because scrooge gives him low salary. He thinks that he should be more kind to hiss employee to save Tiny Tim. Jacob Marley used to be scrooges business partner until he died 7 years ago. He comes as a ghost to warn scrooge about his future if scrooge doesn’t change the way he is living. Frezziwig was Scrooge’s nice employer. Belle is a young woman who once was in love with and loved back by scrooge. But the love for money replaced her. So belle moved on and got remarried.

Fred is scrooge’s nephew. Fred is never mad at scrooge even if he tries.

The ghost of Christmas past is the one who shows scrooge his past. He makes Scrooge realize that he has changed a lot from when he was young. And that he has turned from people to money.

The ghost of

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