The ultimate Guide to Generosity of Spirit There is a spirit inside of everyone, you just got to find the spirit. In the next paragraphs I will be writing about Generosity of Spirit. The reasons are Fran is asking her dad if Scrooge can come back, when Scrooge gave money to two people, and finally for Scrooge giving the turkey to his coworkers poor family. How can you show Generosity of Spirit? To begin with, Generosity of Spirit can be shown by being nice to others. That is what Generosity of Spirit means.When Fran asked her dad if Scrooge can come back home. The dad said yes. That is Generosity of Spirit, because Scrooge was kicked out of home. Fran and Scrooge's dad said yes, because it was almost Christmas and Scrooge wasn't there for …show more content…
3 great reasons for Generosity of Spirit. The ultimate Guide to Generosity of Spirit There is a spirit inside of everyone, you just got to find the spirit. In the next paragraphs I will be writing about Generosity of Spirit. The reasons are Fran is asking her dad if Scrooge can come back, when Scrooge gave money to two people, and finally for Scrooge giving the turkey to his coworkers poor family. How can you show Generosity of Spirit? To begin with, Generosity of Spirit can be shown by being nice to others. That is what Generosity of Spirit means.When Fran asked her dad if Scrooge can come back home. The dad said yes. That is Generosity of Spirit, because Scrooge was kicked out of home. Fran and Scrooge's dad said yes, because it was almost Christmas and Scrooge wasn't there for a long time. Scrooge's dad felt bad, so the dad lets scrooge come back home. When Fran told Scrooge, Scrooge got so excited. That is one reason for Generosity of Spirit. That one reason showed how Generosity of Spirit …show more content…
Scrooge gives money to a little boy so the little boy can go buy a turkey and get a man to help him carry it back to Scrooge. The little boy comes back with the turkey and the man, and Scrooge gives the little boy the money. The little boy runs away with the money. The man is still there with Scrooge and Scrooge tells him to give the turkey to his coworker's family. Scrooge gives him money and then the man looks at him and Scrooge says " You can't carry it all by yourself here take a cab and keep the change." The man goes to a cab and takes the turkey to Scrooge's coworker's family. This is another reason about Generosity of Spirit. Scrooge gave two people money and the coworkers family got a
After the previous spirit disappeared, Scrooge looks up to find the final spirit, The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The phantom remains silent and simply takes Scrooge toward the city, where they eavesdrop on a few conversations between people. One of them was between two men who were talking about how someone had recently died. They retorted about how nobody liked the man and, consequently, they expected nobody to show up to the funeral. The twain continued to another pair of businessmen who had also heard the news that someone had died, but did not care. Scrooge, oblivious as to who they were talking about, tries to ask the spirit some questions, in which the spirit doesn’t respond. The phantom just drags Scrooge to a nearly abandoned
Dickens displays guilt as the main form of how Scrooge’s character develops into a compassionate person by the end of the novella. As Scrooge feels this quilt, it's purely based on the visions that the ghosts provide which further causes Scrooge to realise the consequences of his actions. His alienation from specific characters that he used to love such as Belle, “...has displaced me…” whom left Scrooge, due to his desire for money and wealth which grew. This desire grows with him as he is rejecting the christmas joy and spirit as he continuously states that Christmas is a “humbug,” but by stating this it provides comparison. Dickens depicts that Scrooge has become a better person because of fear but in the end he has become kinder. As the
After Fred leaves, two gentlemen come to Scrooge and ask for money for the poor. His response is, "Are there no prisons? And the union workhouses? Are they still in operation?" One of the gentlemen replies, "They are. Still, I wish I could say they were not." Scrooge's remark shows that he doesn't care about poor people. He does not care if they live or die, just as long as he is comfortable. The two gentlemen are shocked by this.
On Christmas Eve , Scrooge is gone by a progression of ghosts,starting with his old business accomplice, Jacob Marley. The three spirits follow,the Ghosts of Past , Christmas present and Christmas future ,show how his ,mean conduct has influenced everyone around him. Toward the finish of the story ,he is soothed to find that there is still time for him to change and we see him changed into a liberal and kind hearted person.
In this essay I am going to distinguish the personality of Scrooge also show you how he was at the beginning of the novella in the 1st Stave to how he changes at the end in the 5th Stave.
Then Scrooge answered with “You are about to show me the shadows off the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us. Is that so spirit?” The actual spirit is the “Ghost of the Future!” On page three the author states that Scrooge left the busy scene, and went into an obscure part of the town, Scrooge has never penetrated this part of town ever before. Although he recognised its situation, and its bad repute. Later on Scrooge describes this part of town, he states that the shops and houses wretched; the people half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly. Alleys and archways, like so many cesspools, disgorged their offenses smell, and dirt, and life, upon the straggling streets; and the whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth, and misery. Later on Scrooge sees the future from the ghost of the
In the play, Mr. Scrooge is a greedy man who thinks Christmas is “Bah Humbug!” (Dickens 3). His family has always wanted him to join them for a Christmas feast, but Mr. Scrooge has never wanted anything to do with Christmas. Marley, Mr. Scrooge’s old business partner, didn’t want Mr. Scrooge to end up like him with chains of greed attached to him when he died, so he sent Mr. Scrooge three spirits: Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
At the end of the story, Scrooge sends the Cratchit family a huge turkey and for the first time he does not care about announcing who gave this wonderful gift. Scrooge has learned that “giving is more important than receiving and the gift is one of profound pleasure” (English works). Finally, Scrooge has learned the true meaning of being a compassionate and loveable
In this Stave, Dickens shows the importance of kindness by showing Scrooge’s absence of it and the effects of his harmful indifference. Scrooge is taken into his own past and shown memories of when he was young. The Ghost shows him scenes of when he was small and alone on Christmas. This memory makes him regret his harshness towards a young caroler that had come to his door the previous day. He sees that he lacked kindness and wishes he gave something to the caroler. His indifference towards the caroler insured that Scrooge would remain alone. The Ghost also reminds Scrooge of his beloved sister, Fannie who had died and left only her son. “’Always a delicate creature, whom a breath might have withered,’ said the Ghost. ‘But she had a large heart!’ ‘So she had,’ cried Scrooge. ‘You’re right. I will not gainsay it, Spirit. God forbid!’ ‘She died a woman,’ said the Ghost, ‘and had, as I think, children.’ ‘One child,’ Scrooge returned. ‘True,’ said the Ghost. ‘Your nephew!’ Scrooge seemed uneasy in his mind; and answered briefly, ‘Yes.’” (pg. 33-34). Scrooge’s only connection to his kind and gentle sister is his nephew, who also shares Fannie’s sweet nature. Scrooge is then filled with regret because of his callous treatment and lack of relationship with his nephew, who only wanted to be kind and spread the joy of the season. Scrooge’s sheer indifference and lack of kindness towards his nephew prevented
On page 64, we see how Scrooge shows sympathy in the quote, “There was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something. That 's All.” After being shown a memory of himself as a boy, Scrooge regrets being harsh to the boy caroling and not giving him any money. Seeing his own sadness as a child made him realize it would have been nice to give the boy something to make him happy. He will probably do nicer things in the future because he now realizes that the boy would have been upset because of how Scrooge turned him away so harshly. He is changing his actions, and regretting bad actions in the past. He wants to fix what he did wrong, and he feels sympathy for the boy. People want to be shown compassion, so in the future if he helps people out and is kind, he will not be as isolated. Another quote to show how he becomes less detached from humanity is on pages 92-93, ‘”Spirit,” said Scrooge, “Tell me if Tiny Tim will live.” Scrooge feels sorry for Bob Cratchit because the spirit says if the future remains unaltered he will die. He feels upset that Tiny Tim will die, and sympathy for Bob because his son will probably die. He probably regrets not giving Bob more time with his son. He had made a comment earlier that if someone will die they better go and die to decrease the population, when the donation collector
Throughout A Christmas Carol, we see exemplary examples that generosity is more about the spirit in which something is given than the item itself, from the schoolmaster's offer of food and wine to a young Scrooge and his adoring young sister Fan, or the humble but merry celebration hosted by Mr. Fezziwig and his wife, or even Fred's offer of assistance to a grieving Bob Cratchit in a future that does not come to pass: as Bob says, “Now, it wasn't for the sake of anything he might be able to do for us,so much as for his kind way, that this was quite delightful. It really seemed as if he had known our Tiny Tim, and felt with us." Despite this, the glee exhibited by the family acts as a stark contrast to their circumstances, endorsing the notion that generosity involves more than the giving of money and that the price of giving ones love and kindness cannot be quantified.
An example of this is shown in his bitter attitude towards the cheerfulness of his nephew Fred and by thinking Christmas a "humbug." And then, moments before he bitterly declines his nephew's friendly invitation to come dine with him, he says crossly to him, "'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.'" Lastly, an instance that illustrates the cold heart of Scrooge is when he speaks of the poor, "'If they would rather die, they better do it, and decrease the surplus population.'" By these demonstrations, Scrooge exposed the coldness of his own
Emerson’s excerpt from “Self-Reliance” brought about a very important question we experience difficulty in answering: “why do we give?”. Payton and Moody suggests that “it is our human nature, in part, that impels us to respond philanthropically” (Payton & Moody 64). Emerson points out the differences between conformists and nonconformists, in that nonconformists are true to their human nature unlike the first who are true to societal demands and norms. He proposes “if malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that pass?” and follows with an example of an angry bigot commitment to charity for black folks in Barbados (Davis & Lynn 204). In other words, he is asking what good is one’s charity if it is not of their nature to begin
One reason why people are good is because they would Sacrifice themselves to save someone they love and they are caring, My reason is in the giver there is a boy , Jonas , towards the end he and his baby brother are trying to leave/escape the community , but the weather slows them down. In a chapter Jonas said “i don’t care if I survived I just want Gabe to survive” This shows him being good cause he could just leave Gabe and probably go faster, but he doesn't he wants to save and protect him, Also people are friendly,caring and nurturing, In the giver there are child nurtures, people who care for babies, Instead of having it where no one cared for the babies who didn’t immediately go to a family, they had people take care of and care for them, or the babies who had difficulty at birth, The nurtures would care for them until they were healthy and would be able to go to a home
...t, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within [him]." With this still resonating in his mind, he jumps out of bed and immediately begins setting things right. He buys a turkey bigger than Bob Cratchit's son and sends it to him, and instead of being rude to the Poulterer, he pays for a cab to get them to Cratchit's home. He then goes out with joy in his heart and bumps into a man who asked him to donate money to the poor the day before. As opposed to being unkind and cruel, the new and improved Scrooge donates a large sum of money to the cause happily. This kind, happy, and generous man is a complete change from the stingy and unkind Scrooge from Christmas Eve. If someone this awful can change, anyone and everyone can do the same. They just need a little push in the right direction.