will follow if these lessons are not taken in heed. Through the use of characters such as Tiny Tim and the Cratchit family‚ Dickens is able to display to scrooge and his audience the extent of the poverty within society. Dickens foreshadows the penurious family through the Ghost of Christmas Present sprinkling his torch‚ ‘to a poor one most’‚ because ‘it needs it most’ upon the Cratchit household. Their impoverished circumstances are further displayed by Dickens through their surroundings. For
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not taken into consideration. Through the use of characters such as Tiny Tim and the Cratchit family‚ Dickens is able to display towards scrooge and his audience the extent of the poverty and the level of hardship within eighteenth century society. Dickens observes the penniless family through the Ghost of Christmas Present sprinkling his torch‚ ‘to a poor one most’‚ because ‘it needs it most’ upon the Cratchit household. Their impoverished circumstances are further exhibited by Dickens through their
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Summary of A Christmas Carol Matt Toback 1). This story takes place in London‚ England. The time is winter and it starts the day before Christmas‚ also known as Christmas Eve. The settings of the book include Scrooge’s Counting House‚ Scrooge’s Home‚ Bob Cratchit’s home‚ assorted places throughout Scrooges childhood like the schoolhouse and the Fizziwig’s place where Scrooge was an apprentice‚ this is where a Christmas party took place and he met the one love of his life. Then it skips to Scrooge’s
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advancement of the clamoring‚ battling Cratchit family‚ who are a convincing‚ on the off chance that one-dimensional‚ representation of the situation of poor people. Dickens‚ with each aim of pulling on your heartstrings‚ paints the Cratchits as a desperate family that figures out how to express significant appreciation for its passionate wealth. Dickens conveys this supposition considerably encourage with the unfortunate figure of the immaculate hearted‚ injured Cratchit child‚ Tiny Tim. Tightwad’s emotive
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1). This story takes place in London‚ England. The time is winter and it starts the day before Christmas‚ also known as Christmas Eve. The settings of the book include Scrooge’s Counting House‚ Scrooge’s Home‚ Bob Cratchit’s home‚ assorted places throughout Scrooges childhood like the schoolhouse and the Fizziwig’s place where Scrooge was an apprentice‚ this is where a Christmas party took place and he met the one love of his life. Then it skips to Scrooge’s love of his life when she is married and
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“A Christmas Carol” Assessment Task “‘A Christmas Carol’ is most of all a tale of transformation” Discuss. “A Christmas Carol” is a short Christmas story‚ written by Charles Dickens during the period of Victorian England. Dickens portrayed a symbolic character of the upper class of the society at that time‚ Ebenezer Scrooge‚ who was a stingy‚ pessimistic miser‚ and eventually transformed into a warm-hearted‚ optimistic old man. Undeniably‚ Dickens demonstrated his transformation as the dominating
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generous with his money. The coldness inside him froze his old face. He carried the coldness with him always‚ wherever he went. It made his office cold in the summer‚ and it was even colder in winter. He spent his life in a cold nature. His clerk‚ Bob Cratchit‚ shivers in the anteroom because Scrooge refuses to spend money on heating coals for a fire. Scrooge’s nephew‚ Fred‚ pays his uncle a visit and invites him to his annual Christmas party. Two portly gentlemen also drop by and ask Scrooge for a contribution
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Explore the ways that Scrooge’s emotions change in “A Christmas Carol” The story will not leave us‚ but will “haunt” us “pleasantly” as Dickens hoped. We are experiencing this by exploring the ways that emotions of main character‚ Ebenezer Scrooge‚ change during reading “A Christmas Carol”. Charles Dickens uses a lot of adjectives and many similes in order to present a clear image of what Scrooge looks like‚ as well as his personality‚ and this is before we have ever met him: “Hard and sharp as
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Scrooge had a chance to be redeemed to avoid his inevitable fate‚ is through his relationships with those surrounding him. Perfect examples to validate the importance of family and community are The Cratchit family‚ Fred‚ the Portly Gentlemen and those who were thrilled about Scrooge’s death. The Cratchit family does not concentrate on the materialistic side of things‚ for them everything revolves around one another‚ which contrast with Scrooge. Fred‚ Scrooge’s nephew‚ displays the attitude and outlook
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employer and the abused‚ underpaid clerk Bob Cratchit is his employee. Bob is working in a harsh environment; he barely has any heat in his so called office to keep him warm. Bob symbolizes poor working conditions‚ especially long working hours. He doesn’t fuss or complain about the situation because he knows that it’s the only way he can provide for his family. After working alongside Scrooge he knows deep down inside what type of person Scrooge really is and Bob realizes that there is nothing he can
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