Marley And Scrooge In A Christmas Carol

Marley and Scrooge - the firm, known as Scrooge and Marley - although the sign hasn't changed since Marley’s death, the one thing that had worsened is the personality of Scrooge, the tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! On page two, I noticed the author says Scrooge has an insufficient fire for keeping himself warm, but the clerk’s fire (Bob Cratchit) was so indubitable small that it looked like one coal. Everyone knew Scrooge throughout the community to be an unpleasant friend to be around, in that his attitude is unacceptable and he is disrespectful to others. Consequently, he is all head and no heart, as explained within the text. Scrooge had absolutely no room

in his heart for kindness because his heart had been overtaken by the hatred that lived within him. Scrooge is thoughtless, the text says, “. . . Scrooge doesn’t want to spend an extra cent even on heating.”, another example of him being miserly is in the text where his nephew bursts in and says, “La-la-la, Merry Christmas!” In response, Scrooge says, “Bah! Humbug!” The cheapskate old scoundrel doesn't want to embrace his nephew’s family with his presence at their Christmas dinner table. His afterthought for this situation is sorrowful, he doesn’t think that Christmas is a requirement, he doesn't understand the true meaning of Christmas.
Marley’s dead and his spirit has come to inform Scrooge there will be three ghosts that will come and visit him in the coming nights.

According to the text, The Ghost of Christmas Past will be the first spirit to come talk to Scrooge. After visiting with the Ghost of Christmas Past, Scrooge was surprised to see that the spirit was soft and gentle. They flew together to a place where there was an open country road, fields on both sides, the city vanished, from what Scrooge said, the darkness vanished with the city, cold and there was snow on the ground. Also, wherever the ghost took him, Scrooge said that he was a boy there, the ghost said “Your lip is trembling. And what is upon your cheek?” He spotted ponies with boys on the back, as time went by, more boys appeared until the air was full of music, Scrooge knew every single one and as they went past, his heart leaped and he was full with gladness. The Ghost of Christmas Past brought Scrooge's heart back to him, when he showed Scrooge all the ghost saying Merry Christmas to each other instead of saying, “Bah! Humbug!” Scrooge is in a room where there were more kids than adults. He was having a hard time counting, because every child was counting itself like

forty.
The second spirit of the three that visits’ Scrooge is the, Ghost of Christmas Present. Scrooge heard someone or something call his name in his room. Scrooge’s room had an undergone surprising transformation, his walls and ceiling were so hung with living green that looked like a perfect grove from every part, which bright gleaming berries glistened. The noise that Scrooge heard was the Ghost of Christmas Present, the Ghost of Christmas Present said, “Look upon me.” Scrooge looked upon the ghost, he explained him as if he was clothed in a simple green robe, and bordered with white fur, it was hung so closely to the figure. The spirit said, “You have never seen the like of me before.” and Scrooge replied back and said, “Never.” This spirit tried to make Scrooge happy before Christmas, so that is why he is called the Ghost of Christmas Past. The last ghost also tried to make Scrooge happy again, but he was called the Ghost of Christmas Past because he wanted to remind Scrooge of how Christmas was without happiness. He announced to the spirit, “You seek to close these places on the Seventh Day and it comes to the same thing.”, the ghost said,”I seek!” Scrooge now knows that the Ghost of Christmas Present is here to help him become happy before the time of Christmas comes again.
The last spirit to come and visit Scrooge is the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come.

This spirit is going to show Scrooge the shadows of the things that have not happened, but the shadows that this spirit will show Scrooge are things that will happen in the time before them. Scrooge is used to a lot of ghostly company, but this ghost is different than any other ghost that has come to talk to him, this ghost scared Scrooge so much that his legs were trembling beneath him and he could hardly stand when he was prepared to follow it. The ghost gave Scrooge some time to recover his legs trembling. Scrooge said to the ghost, “Ghost of the Future! I fear you more than any spectre I have ever seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?” The ghost didn’t answer Scrooge and the hand was pointed straight before them. Scrooge was listening to people talk about someone dead and he soon found out that they were talking about him. There was a den, and it had a low-browed, beetling shop, below the den there was a penthouse roof, there iron, old rag, bones, bottles, and greasy offal were bought. This ghost wants to help Scrooge become happy like all the other spirits wanted Scrooge to be

happy.