The ghost of Christmas yet to come was a quiet, scary cloaked figure and just pointed. The author gives different descriptions for the ghost to make it interesting for the reader and to show the different sides to Scrooge’s personality. Dickens wrote this book for the rich people to know that it is not good not to share with poor people. Scrooge was a selfish man; stingy, greedy and mean. Nobody likes Scrooge and poor people were scared to go near Scrooge.
That night, his old partner Jacob Marley, who had been dead for 7 years, visits Scrooge as a ghost. Chained from his feet to his arms, Marley comes to warn Scrooge how miserable his afterlife is because he was more worried about money and business, than the well being of people when he was alive. Scrooge: "But it was only that you were an honest man of business!" Jacob Marley: "BUSINESS? Mankind was my business!
What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer’, ‘if I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with merry Christmas on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart’ which shows that he is cruel because that is very cold hearted thing to say about Christmas. He doesn't see how poor people
In stave 1 it says that scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grapping, covets old sinner(page two) this means that scrooges is not very nice as he will not even give money to the charity. The visit from Jacob Marley just shows how wicked scrooge has become, because Jacob Marley tells him that he will be visited by three ghost. In stave 2 scrooges is visited by the first of the three ghosts, the ghost of Christmas past. The ghost of Christmas past shows scrooge his childhood and dickens shows scrooge as a human who has feeling and emotions “what is that upon your check” this makes the readers discover that scrooge used to be normal/nice. In stave 3 scrooge is visited by the second ghost which takes him to thew crtchits
Scrooge hated Christmas with all his heart “every idiot who goes about with merry Christmas… should be boiled with his own pudding…” he did not have the heart to smile, much less to donate money to charity. Scrooge was the opposite to what civilised men are. Many people disliked Scrooge because of the way he acted towards others. They described Scrooge as a “tight fisted hand at a grindstone… a sequencing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, cavernous old sinner…” Scrooge had no one to love, no one to care for him except for Jacob Marley the first ghost that visited Scrooge. Marley is the one who told him to change his ways because he did not wish on Scrooge to be like him.
Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya,’ he cried, ‘I tell ya a guy get’s too lonely an’ he gets sick” (69). Crooks’ illustrates that his lack of companionship manifests itself physically and emotionally. The only alleviation of these symptoms for Crooks occurs when he offers to work on Candy, George, and Lennie’s farm (Steinbeck 76). Similarly, Curley’s wife seeks out other people as a way to cope with her loneliness.
Next in the story “Jared” is about a boy who has his face burned and separates himself from the rest of the world. Then in the story “Goin' Fishing,” Lionel lost his family and all that he has left in his heart is rage. Wally is the main character in “White Chocolate,” by Robin Brancato and his parents are going through a rough divorce. His dad had left to Alaska and hasn’t written a single letter back to Wally. He of course is hurt by this and feels abandoned by his father’s
An example of a villain is the Grinch; a bitter, cave-dwelling creature with a heart "two sizes too small" from “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” Living in spiteful seclusion for most of his life, the Grinch has always hated the citizens of Whoville and Christmas since he was an eight year old boy. The reason why the Grinch despises Christmas is because he was constantly being bullied at school by his class mates because near Christmas day he decided to shave off his beard and they all made fun of him. So the Grinch left his home and decided to live on top of Mount Crumpit a snowy mountain that looks down on Whoville. He is the only one in all of Whoville that hates Christmas so occasionally he will pull dangerous mean jokes on all the Who’s.
The illness of Tiny Tim was a big contributing factor to Scrooges transformation. When the ghost of Christmas present takes Scrooge to the Cratchit family house, Scrooge regrettable discovers that young Tiny Tim’s illness is so severe that he will die unless he receives treatment (Scrooge’s low salary is not enough for a family to afford the treatment). Scrooge begged with the spirit to spare Tiny Tim’s life, the ghost makes Scrooge regret what he had said in the past about the needy people “Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted.” Along with all of the genuine change there is also an element of self-preservation present throughout the novel. After the confrontation with the ghost of Marley, Scrooge was determined to prevent himself from
Here, Harry is an outcast and an embarrassment to the uptight Dursleys. They force him to live in the cupboard under the stairs and ignore him in favor of their obnoxious son. On Harry’s eleventh birthday, a large, kind man named Hagrid rescues him from his incarceration. Hagrid tells Harry how he once was a student at school for witches and wizards, but he misbehaved which resulted in his expulsion from the school. Dumbledore, after learning of Hagrid’s dismissal from the school, allows Hagrid to stay on campus and work as the gamekeeper.