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.
Mr Tom and Scrooge (How they change) Mr Tom is a character from the novel ‘Good Night Mr Tom’ and, Scrooge, from ‘A Christmas Carol’. In this essay I will explain how both characters change in a similar way. At the start of the novel tom is impatient with Willie as he says ‘I ent got all day’ which is a harsh welcome because Willie goes in the house for the first time. He is also a bit annoyed when Willie says ‘I can’t go aht wivout me socks’ and he snorted ‘why?’. This shows that tom thinks Willie is weird.
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!
I think this sense of guilt and regret came from the benevolent guide, his conscience. After this, he starts to question whether he should search for this man to see if he is okay, and whether this person will commit suicide or whether he is mentally disturbed. The regret and the fact that D’Angelo starts to wonder about things like what weighed down the man so much that he burst into tears, shows that D’Angelo separated himself from the familiar social realm or the comfortable known world in to
He is very distant even from his family, his grandchildren don't like to visit him and they misbehave during the funeral. Walt also judges them without having into account that they are little kids and teenagers, he dislikes the way they dress and their attitudes. As for Walt's sons, my impression is that he feels like they are trying to send him to the old people's house to get rid of him and take over his belongings, the house and his beautiful car, the Gran Torino. Another issue that Walt has to face after the funeral is that Father Janovich is tries to talk with him in order to get him to confession, because he had promised Walt's wife he would do so after her passing away. This is very difficult to Walt because a younger man is talking him about life, being that he has had strong and near experiences with death, so Walt stereotypes him as a young virgin speaking things learned at school, but that the Father didn't even understand according to him.
He wants to go home to only receive assurance, security, and love from his family. When Tom reaches his house, he finds that it has been deserted and meets an old neighbor of the Joad’s family, Muley. A deputy comes by looking for trespassers and Tom and Muley are forced to go into hiding. I see Tom loathe that he has to hide on his own father’s property and gets agitated. Tom usually likes to handle problems in a straightforward manner by yelling or beating people up.
“Jonathon, how are you?” it was that butler George; Jonno didn’t trust him at all. There was something evil in his pale face and his black eyes and how he never seemed to smile. George simply waved his hand towards his father’s office and expected Jonno to follow. He obeyed. The mansion was large although very cold and fairly unfurnished.
He prefers not to do anything there, either, and even prefers not to eat. The Narrator goes to visit Bartleby, but unsurprisingly, he can't get through to the strange scrivener. Eventually, Bartleby wastes away and starves to death, leaving only the Narrator to mourn him. As a rather odd end note, the narrator informs us that Bartleby previously worked as a clerk in an obscure branch of the Post Office known as the Dead Letter Office, sorting through undeliverable mail. We have to wonder what kind of
Homer “aimless[ly]” walks around his house and sits around doing nothing. Homer, obviously accustomed to his loneliness, is surprised when Harry Greener comes into his life and turns it upside down. Harry, the complete opposite of Homer, comes into his home and spreads his exuberate character all over the place. In doing this, Homer begins to leave his house and do more things in his life. The different styles of narration that occur within the novel may be an indication into the author’s real life
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.