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Who Is Ebenezer Scrooge In A Christmas Carol
In class these past couple days we have been watching a movie called A "Christmas Carol." It is an exhilarating movie also and old one at that. There are many main characters, but the main one I am focused on is the elder man named Ebenezer Scrooge. He is the elder man in the movie that is traveling back into his past to see why it is he hates Christmas. This man has three ghosts of Christmas take him back to realize he has been putting blame where it is not needed. In the beginning he still continues to be himself and hate the day most people cherish and love, yet he chooses to demote the idea of Christmas. Scrooge is not just a regular man. No man himself puts down Christmas is regular. In the movie there is a very delinquent man with

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