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Comparing The Book A Christmas Carol: Scrooge And Marley

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If youve read the book “ A Christmas Carol:Scrooge and Marley” Then here are many things you can realate to? As you know In the beggining Scrooge is mean man, whom wasn’t pleasant to his Neice. As the Story goes on Scrooge becomes more moldable and changable. Many spirits came and visited scrooge around the Christmas time. Scrooge needed to change for the better. But the question is, Did he really change?

In the story the think of Scrooge as a stuck up rich buisness man, who would do anything to get richer. He was mean and never donated, even to his relatives who were poor and needed the money. In the beggining, Scrooge’s neice ( a poor lady, whom was cheerful and bright ) welcomed him as he was getting ready. She told Scrooge Merry Christmas, as he began to nag and was beggining to explain why should she even be happy even though she is as poor as a flea. He was ignorant to learn how Christmas wasn’t about gifts, money, or getting, Christmas is about being together. He took it for granted and got visited by a spirit gone by the name Future. …show more content…
Then Scrooges dead co-worker Marley told him pretty much how it felt in Hell. He was rapped in chains and everything. At first Scrooge thougth it was his mind playing tricks, but soon enough he realized that everything was ok and he needed to fix his actions. He was foolish to have thought it was a game in the beggining but soon enough he was desperate to change. Scrooge listened to Future, and Marley and they said his time has come for the death. Scrooge promised he would change, he was scared to enter Hell, He listened to his good friends Marley. He told the Future, a spirit that he promised to be better just give him sometime. So I guess you can say that Scrooge made a deal with the

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