...more about others. I don’t think that Scrooge from A Christmas Carol fits the definition of hero to me. Scrooge is a greedy, selfish, and unthankful man. Here are some of the reasons why I don’t think Scrooge meets up to the meaning of a hero. “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends” ~ J.K. Rowling. This quote explains most of what my definition of a hero is. It explains that a hero needs bravery to stick up not just for himself, but even more, bravery to stick up for others. Scrooge does show bravery but, mostly the bravery is only to himself. For example, when Scrooge put the candle top the first spirit because he didn’t want to see the past anymore. That shows Scrooge being brave only toward himself, but not toward others. The Man In The Water is a good example of why Scrooge is not a hero. For example, The Man In The Water was always polite and generous to the others that survived the plane crash. He would always pass on the lifeline and floating ring on to the next person. On the other hand, Scrooge will never do anything nice for...
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...¨If there is no struggle there is no progress.¨ (Frederick Douglass) Change is sometimes difficult at first but, the outcome is plainly beautiful. Take for instance Scrooge. He underwent a wondrous change. People can change if they really try or through a certain experience. The novella used was A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens. Scrooge was a miserable, bitter old man. The author wrote, “Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.” (pg. 2) This shows that Scrooge was selfish, silent, and lonely because he never cared for anybody but himself. On the night of Christmas Eve, a couple ghosts visited Scrooge and showed him his past, present, and...
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...You should know what the story, A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, is. I’m going to talk about how each sees about Scrooge. The Nephew and Niece don’t like very much at the start as Scrooge tends to never go to their parties every year and dislikes Christmas which the nephew likes it, and we don’t know much about the niece except that she was married to the nephew. Scrooge thinks highly of himself but in the story he seemed to be a grumpy old man, as we know he hated Christmas and his past self and he also never got married. The Cratchits as we know are a poor family, Bob Cratchit is one of Scrooge’s workers and gets payed 15 shillings a week which wasn’t enough. Scrooge thinks about himself very well. He thinks that everything he did in the past was dumb and he should’ve never made it like that. He hates Christmas and calls it a humbag and never goes to his nephews parties. Scrooge at first doesn’t really care about Cratchit as Scrooge never seemed to realize that he was poor. Scrooge hates his nephew and his niece as like they get in his way....
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...A Christmas Carol has many themes, however, “What goes around comes around” appears to be one of the most important. In the book Jacob Marley lived a life where he did many bad things, for doing this he must wear a chain with links and every time he did a bad deed in his life he would add link to the chain. So in the afterlife he bears a very long chain, and all he can do is moan and long to help people in real life, which he can’t do. During the book the Ghost of Christmas present shows Scrooge some of the consequences he had already faced due to Scrooge’s actions and attitude, such as Belle his old fiance, ending his engagement with her because she realizes he will never love her as much as he loves money. Later he shows him Belle on Christmas eve with her large...
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...At the beginning of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is mean, ill tempered, truculent. He’s mean because in the story Cratchit burst into applause. Scrooge’s response to this is “Another sound out of you, and you’ll keep your Christmas by losing your position.”(4) He’s ill tempered because in the story there are few kids singing God Rest Ye merry gentlemen. Scrooge’s response will seizing a ruler to this is “ get away from here , you! I didn’t ask to be bothered with that.”(6) He’s truculent because Fred his nephew said i fell in love. After that Scrooge repeated said “good afternoon.”(4) Scrooge changes from these traits through experience with the ghosts of the Past, Present, and Future. First the ghost of Christmas Past visits Scrooge...
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...Have you ever heard of the Grinch? Scrooge from A Christmas Carol is very similar to the Grinch in many ways. The Grinch is similar by both of them being mean to people and both take place on Christmas. Scrooge changed over the course of the story from being like the Grinch and then from him loving Christmas. One of the main events that happened in the story was when the past visits Scrooge then, the past take scrooge to see his old self and the time his sister named Fan came and got him to come home for Christmas. The sad thing about his sister is that she died. His sister said in the past “home is like heaven.” That made Scrooge think about others. While Scrooge was looking at the past, it made him say “Oh dear little sister oh how I...
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...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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...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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...“ Scrooge and Marley A Christmas Carol.” Change is a new feeling or behavior that a character or person doesn’t normally have, any person or character has the ability to change. In the text “ Scrooge and Marley a Christmas Carol,” the character Scrooge proved to people and ghosts that anyone one can change. Scrooge’s character transform in the text by becoming thankful, understanding, and cautious. To start off, the ghost known as “ The Ghost of Christmas Past” begins to show Scrooge more of his past that Scrooge has never thought back about. In the text the Ghost of Christmas past started off by showing Scrooge his past about his sister. Scrooge’s sisters name was Fan, now Fan was described a pure spirit due to all her kindness spreaded toward...
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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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...Our eighth grade class watched the movie "A Christmas Carol." In this movie Ebenezer Scrooge says this quote," Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if preserved in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change." Which means every person will have a bad side and that some ends may change As Scrooge said this it made something pop into my head. That something is everyone has two sides, but they only show one. All of Scrooge's life he has put off Christmas. When the Christmas spirits come to visit Scrooge, he has no idea what is happening. Once the first spirit explains how Scrooge had been bitter and cold hearted over the years. The Ghost of Christmas Past told Scrooge that two more spirits...
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...The Christmas Carol is about a greedy man named Scrooge, who only cared about money, and always wanted to be alone. But he has changed into a better person. However, he has learned that if he continues to be greedy, and selfish, then his life, eventually would not end well. Scrooge has seen how his relatives celebrate Christmas, and how he has changed, and how that will affect him in the future from the three ghosts of past present and future. Scrooge and Past visit his past when Scrooge was young. On the way, they stop by young Scrooge with a woman. She was unhappy because she knew that Scrooge adored his money more than her. The woman knew “even if he became wiser, than he wouldn’t change towards her” (Dickens 765). She has thought of...
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...In the movie, A. Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge tells the Ghost Yet to come," Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. If a man's courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me." I can determine on what Scrooge meant when he said this. Scrooge meant that a man must make good decisions for the future and if the decisions are bad then the future will change according to what they do. I can tell this because Scrooge does horrible things in the present, but after he sees what the Ghost Yet to Come has to offer him Scrooge wants to change on how he behaved. Scrooge did not believe that his actions affect his future and others. When he is...
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...Scrooge and Marley, a short novel, is the adapted version of a Christmas Carol by Israel Horovitz. The author expresses that greed and indifference come at a cost, so the readers can interpret the consequences of being greedy. Over the course of the story, the author shows dramatic changes in Scrooge’s personality. Before the first spirit arrives, an example of scrooge's personality towards the poor and everyone else is, “If I could work my will every idiot who goes about ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding…” (603). In this piece of text Scrooge shows that he does not care about anyone but himself. In the middle of the story, Scrooge starts to change his act about how he feels about how he treated his wife. For...
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