Ebenezer Scrooge's Visit by the Three Spirits in Dickens' Novel A Christmas Carol

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Novels that are phenomenal makes the reader travel into a world where anything can happen. However, many authors made the readers travel into the main characters mind or point of view. In Charles Dickens novel, A Christmas Carol, a grumpy and selfish old man, Ebenezer Scrooge, was visited in his dream by three spirits. It all started in the morning of Christmas Eve when Scrooge came across into some events which made him started thinking and dreaming about his past, present and future with 3 different sprits.

Many people believed that the three Spirits did visit Scrooge. It started when Scrooge heard Marley, Scrooge’s old partner in their job, softly in the air and saw him on Scrooge’s knocker at his door. Scrooge might have been hallucinating because two people asked for Marley in the morning but Scrooge said he was dead on the same day seven years ago. When Scrooge went to his room and ate his oatmeal he was still awake. This means he must have seen Marley. It could have also been an illusion because it was night time and closed to his bed time, also he was reminded about his old...

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