A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
Introduction:
Charles Dickens, the author of this classic story shared a great and wonderful experience in the life of Ebenezer Scrooge. He hopes to illustrate how a self serving and insensitive person can be converted into charitable, caring and socially conscious members of the society.
A Christmas Carol is a straight forward allegory built in an episodic narrative structure in which each of the main passages has a fixed obvious symbolic meaning. This essay is going to be about how and why Scrooge changed from being a self-contained and solitary person he managed to change his whole personality.
Paragraph 1:
Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean spirited, misery old man who sits on his counting house on a frigid Christmas Eve. He keeps an eye on his clerk, Bob Cratchit who shivers in the anteroom because Scrooge refuses to spend money on heating coals for a fire. Suddenly a ruddy faced young man bursts into the office, offering a holiday greeting and exclamatory. This young man is Fred, Scrooge's jovial nephew who pays his uncle a visit and invites him to their annual Christmas Party but Scrooge spitted out an angry "Bah! Humbug!" in response to his nephews cheerful greeting. After Fred departs, two portly gentlemen also dropped by and requested Scrooge for a contribution to their charity. Scrooge reacted in this holiday visitors with bitterness and venom and says that prisons and workhouses are the only charities he is willing to support and the gentlemen left empty-handed.
Paragraph 2:
Scrooge followed the same old routine of taking his dinner in his usual tavern and returning home to his dark and cold apartment. Later that evening, he receives a chilling visitation from the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley. At first, Scrooge shouted in disbelief, refusing to admit that he sees Marley's ghost and claimed that it is a strange case of food...
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