Christmas Past, Present And Future

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The past had a major impact on a person’s life, so it was important to look forward to life and remember the past. Ebenezer Scrooge and his late partner, Jacob Marley, were obsessed with making and keeping their money. After Marley died, the ghost of him came back (seven years after his death) to warn Scrooge about his future and what will happen if he didn’t change his lifestyle. That night, the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future visited him. When Scrooge was being shown his life by the Phantoms, he saw how his decisions had shaped his life and what his life will become if he did not change his lifestyle. At the same time, Scrooge also got the chance to relive his terrible past and learned many lessons from it. Scrooge’s past had …show more content…

‘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; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?’ (Stave One, paragraph 20). Fred talked about his perspective of Scrooge's Christmas. These were some of the reasons to hate Christmas for a man like him. However, as the story moved on, the readers started to see Scrooge’s negative memories on and near Christmas day. The bad past reflected on Scrooge’s spirit during Christmastime. One evidence to show that Scrooge’s past affected his feeling towards Christmas in the future was that Scrooge was left alone at school during Christmas as a child. After the death of his mother, the only supporters that he had were his father and sister. However, he never received the love and comfort that he expected. During Christmas time, Scrooge’s father left him at the boarding school and never brought him home like all of the other kids. As a result, Scrooge grew to up having a miserable a Christmas every year and would often wish he had company other than books. For a kid that went through lonely Christmases, it made sense when something like this made a person dislike

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