...Ebenezer Scrooges childhood affects greatly on the man he becomes in later life. In his youth he was poor, abused by his father and lonely. At the start of the book we see Scrooge as a bitter old man who didn’t care about anyone but himself and money. But when the ghost of Christmas past takes Scrooge back we see that he was nothing like the man he is today. One of the main reasons why Scrooge is so mean is his father. He had an extremely lonely childhood as his father abused him and sent him to a boarding school. When we first see Scrooge in his past he is at the boarding school which is very rundown. "The school is not quite deserted," said the Ghost. "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still." This shows that not only was he lonely because of his father but also he had no friends and was neglected. Having a hard relationship with his father made him find it hard to connect to people and to have a loving relationship with someone. The only person who really cared for Scrooge was his sister who came to the school to bring with back home. At the start of the story we are introduced to Fred who Scrooges nephew. We later on learn that his mother died. “a little girl, much younger than the boy, came darting in, and putting her arms about his neck, and often kissing him, addressed him as her 'Dear, dear brother.” The death of Scrooges sister, Fan must have affected him greatly as she was the only one who was there for him. “'You are quite a woman, little...
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...There were a lot of people talking about Ebenezer Scrooge, a man in town who had run the counting house for many years had died. According to the text, he was a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Based on what I read in the text, Mrs.Dibbler said “Who’s the worse for the loss of a few things like these? Not a dead man I suppose” She and Joe, the laundryman were rummaging through Scrooge’s remaining personal items. Most people would care about a dead man, but not this one. Scrooge hated every single person he saw in one day’s time and all others before that. He was so disliked when he did die that people were taking his stuff like it was really theirs because in the text Mrs.Dilber says “somebody...
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...Changes in Ebenezer Scrooge Throughout the story “A Christmas Carol” there is a very apparent change in the main character Ebenezer Scrooge. He in some ways could be described as changing into a whole new, unrecognizable man. He is very cold hearted, hateful, greedy, and had no appreciation for Christmas at all when our story first starts. But after meeting three ghosts face to face, and getting a look at what could be, things really change him. ``Bah!'' and “Humbug!'' Were two very common words to hear coming from Ebenezer Scrooge at Christmas time. At the start of the story we see a man who is very greedy, and has a hate for Christmas and all who love it. We see Scrooge very rudely turn his nephew away, along with a man who wanted money. He even goes...
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...Maya Angelou, an African American poet, once wrote, “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” Many people believe that this is a great way to live life. This perfectly resembles Ebenezer Scrooge, from A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. In the story, Scrooge realizes he does not like the outcome of his life, so he changes his attitude. For example, he learns to love and appreciate his family instead of treating them with disgust and shame. Sadly, for most of the play, Scrooge is a greedy, rude, self-centered man. Slowly, he realizes that to change his future he needs to change his attitude. Sooner or later, the lessons of the three spirits who visit him kick in, and he learns that he needs to...
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...Character Analysis Essay for Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol "Greed, Ebenezer Scrooge, wealth. Feel them. Know them. Yours was as heavy as this I wear seven years ago, and you have labored to build it since," wailed Jacob Marley in Frederick Gaines's adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (396). Burdened by his greedy life, Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge's deceased business partner, is forced to wander the spirit world with no sense of peace. He warns Scrooge to change his selfish ways to avoid the same miserable fate. Marley's ominous warning sets in motion three life-altering journey through time for Scrooge with the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet To Come. Ebenezer Scrooge, originally a greedy and heartless character, changes drastically after his ghostly experiences influence him to become a generous and caring man by the end of the story. In Scene I of "A Christmas Carol", Scrooge is a bitter and self-centered man. For instance, Scrooge's own nephew, Fred, asked Scrooge if he would join Fred and his family for dinner. Scrooge coldly denied Fred's invitation by saying "Nephew, keep Christmas in your own way…"(390)....
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...In the story, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirits of Christmas past, present, and future on Christmas Eve. Each spirit leads Scrooge to view one of three different times in his life in order to teach him a lesson. The spirits are determined to convince Scrooge to start being more compassionate and less miserly. With each ghost coming into his has has bad impacts and good impacts through each visit of a ghost. The ghost is the one that has the biggest influence on him because he shows the man what is going to happen and shows him his own grave, and also showed the family of the little boy who was gone die then after the ghost leaves the man changed and became happy. I think that ghost of the future because he showed him the family with the little boy who was sick and tells him that because of his actions the boy will die. I feel this ghost has a bigger impact because he changes him and gets him into the Christmas spirit. Although he doesn't understand why each ghost comes at first he begins to realize the reasons of what he has done and how he has treated people so therefore he begins...
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...A Christmas Carole is about Ebenezer scrooge who’s a man who doesn’t understand the meaning of Christmas. He doesn’t care about other people, he just cares about money. The night before Christmas Eve, the ghost of his dead friend visits him, his friend was just like him, loved money and didn’t care about anyone but himself. But now he came to warn Ebenezer. He says that he will be haunted by three spirits: the spirit of Christmas past, the spirit of Christmas present and the spirit of Christmas yet to come. Every night one. The first night Ebenezer is visited by the ghost of the Christmas past. He takes him to Ebenezer’s childhood, from when he was a little boy and Ebenezer felt the hopes, joys and cares long, long forgotten but they also went to the time that Ebenezer was engaged, to Belle, she broke op with him because of his greediness for money. He was devastated....
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...The novel, A Christmas Carol, was written by Charles Dickens is about a man named Scrooge Ebenezer who is visited by four ghosts. The four ghosts helped him realize that he is not the best person he could be. One of the ghosts invites him to visit his own gravestone, and there he says ", Men's actions will affect certain ends, and if not changed, they must lead. But if changed, the ends will change. Say it is what you show me." Scrooge meant what he said and followed his own conclusion....
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...Christmas Carol, is spoken by the ghost of Jacob Marley to Ebenezer Scrooge. In the scene, the spirit is trying to convince Scrooge to change his miserly ways before it is too late. Throughout the book, Dickens uses symbolism in the ghosts that visit Scrooge. After reading Thomas C. Foster’s book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, I have also been able to recognize that the book might also be somewhat political. In Dickens’s book, the first ghost that visits Scrooge is his old business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley, who was once like Scrooge, essentially begs him to become a better, less selfish person. Now, Marley’s character is full of symbolism. It is even stated in the book that the thick chains that weigh down his body are representative of the “chains he forged in life.” They represent his greed and his wrongdoings that keep his locked down. When his physical appearance is described, it even says...
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...Ebenezer Scrooge is the most miserly, upset, and cross person you will ever meet in your entire life. The story, A Christmas Carol is about a man named Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformation from his cruel attitude towards Christmas and people. This story shows the reader that if you give to someone, they will give back to you. In the story, A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is miserly and hogs his riches. He does not like to partake in any parties or celebrate any holiday of any kind with his family and friends. After his visit with two spirits who show him some mistakes he made years back that led him to these feelings, he realizes that if he did not alter his mistakes and attitude, it would lead to sorrow and multiple deaths. Because of the spirits he then grew more attentive to the people around him and the days that they spend working for their family. This shows that the spirits improved his awareness. I think it helped out scrooge big time. Before scrooge’s hauntings, he was upset. While scrooge has his visit with the ghost of Christmas...
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...Greed, the Opposite of Compassion Greed is shown as the opposite of compassion in both A Christmas Carol and Wuthering Heights. Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley are characters in A Christmas Carol that showcase the harm of greedy living without compassion. The rest of the characters, such as the Cratchits or Fred, contrast the miserly moneylenders. Heathcliff and Hindley Earnshaw are characters in Wuthering Heights who cause so much pain to others and themselves due to their obsession of ownership and revenge. Cathy serves as foil characters, showing how loyalty and compassion can lead to a happier existence. Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has two main types of characters: the compassionate and the greedy. Ebenezer Scrooge has a lot of contrast between the people who are willing to feel pity towards him (his ex-fiancé, his nephew, his clerk) and those who coldly dismiss him as he does them (fellow business people, his servants, the pawn shop owner). The entire supernatural ordeal that Scrooge goes through is meant to show him the error of his greedy ways and teach him the importance of compassion. Scrooge starts in the story with a personality so cold, it freezes his features. His dispassionate nature forbids any kindness, whether it be giving it, like towards his clerk, or receiving it, such as his nephew’s invitation. Yet, Scrooge’s compassion almost suddenly appears when he sees his past (27). It is not like he never knew such things growing up; he was taught through...
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...“He who is greedy is always in want”. (Horace). That was a characteristic of a man named Ebenezer Scrooge. The script and movie of “A Christmas Carol” tells the story about him. On Christmas Eve Scrooge is visited by three spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Over the three visits, Scrooge sees how he will die alone if he doesn’t stop caring about money and himself. “A Christmas Carol” script and movie have their differences, but they do have the same moral. In the play when Past visits Scrooge, Past renews memories of Scrooge’s childhood, which contained of only preparing to have financial success when he grew up. Past also shows when Scrooge is a middle-aged man and his girlfriend breaks up with him because he spends all his...
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...In the novel, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is a rude, grumpy, mean old man. He thinks Christmas is a humbug and he doesn’t want to get in the Christmas spirit because he treasures his money and doesn’t want to spend one bit of it. Scrooge will be visited by three spirits throughout the book. The spirits will try to teach him a lesson and that he needs to change his ways before it is too late. In A Christmas Carol, the author Charles Dickens, shows that one’s business in life is helping others and being charitable through Scrooge’s experiences with the three ghosts. In Stave I, Scrooge thinks the definition of man’s “business” is money. This impacted Scrooge because he has become greedy and uncharitable. Scrooge does not care about...
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...“Forgotten Patriots who supported the American Struggle for Independence” Elizabeth Zane, better known as “Betty Zane,” is hailed as a heroine of the Revolutionary War for her defense of Fort Henry in the wilderness of West Virginia. She was born near the Potomac River in Berkeley County, Virginia on July 19, but the year is indefinite, with historians placing it between 1759 and 1766. In any case, Betty moved with her family at an early age to the area that now is Wheeling, West Virginia. The Zane family and a few others established Fort Henry in 1774. Living there was a testament to the family's boldness. Betty's older brother, the famous Ebenezer Zane, pioneered this area in the turbulent Ohio Valley, and the land was hardly “child-friendly.” Surrounded by thick woods, it was the home of Native Americans who became increasingly hostile because of encroachment on their lands. Beyond that, their move was illegal, as the colonists were defying a royal order that reserved land west of the Appalachian Mountains for natives. The treat of attack increased as the American Revolution Began back east. The tribes who lived beyond the Appalachians understandably wanted the British to put down the rebellion, and almost all of them allied themselves with the British.While living with the daily reality of a terrifying attack, the women of Wheeling also were busy with cooking, washing, sewing, weaving, and other household tasks without the supplies that most housewives could take...
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...Jordan Shaw 12/5/13 Reading 7th Seven years after the death of his business partner Jacob Marley, a man named Ebenezer Scrooge is working in his office. He hates happiness, love, family, generosity, Christmas, and probably also puppies. When his nephew Fred invites him over to Christmas dinner, Scrooge yells at him and rejects. Scrooge then tells off the people collecting charity donations, and grumbles and complains that the fact that his clerk Bob Cratchit gets a paid day off for Christmas. That night, he is haunted by Marley's ghost, which warns Scrooge that the dead who led bad lives are forced to roam around and not be at peace. The ghost also claims that three other ghosts are going to appear to Scrooge, and leaves after telling Scrooge to change his life before it's too late. Scrooge changes, but sure enough he soon get a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past. This spirit takes him on a tour of his childhood memories and Scrooge quickly starts crying when he remembers himself as a neglected boy. The past also features scenes from Scrooge's young adulthood, when he transforms into the greedy miser that he ends up being after rejecting his fiancée and not learning the lessons of hospitality taught by Fezziwig...
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