Novels are a precious source of education‚ and their effect heavily relies on their ability to deliver messages through their conveyance of language. In his novella‚ A Christmas Carol‚ Charles Dickens illustrates the need for social reform during the Industrial Revolution‚ and explores the power of the Christmas spirit. His talented use of language features such as the striking emotive language‚ the clever and deliberate music-focused structure‚ and the brilliant characterisation of Scrooge are very
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A Christmas Carol The first edition of A Christmas Carol was introduced in 1843 and the movie version was first let out in 1938. Interesting huh? Well here is a very fun fact about Charles Dickens‚ the writer of this novel‚ he always insisted on sleeping with his bed aligned north-south‚ with his head pointing north. He also had a pet raven called Grip which he had stuffed when it died in 1841. These are a couple of facts that I found very interesting and a little different. In this report I’m going
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benefit of a teacher‚ and to manage my own finances. As a child‚ my parents would read the story of A Christmas Carol to me. The protagonist‚ Scrooge‚ is a man who lost his sense of kindness and just needs to look inside himself to find the good that is in everyone. I was given the opportunity to play the role of Belinda Cratchit on Nebraska Theatre Caravan’s Midwest production of A Christmas Carol. This would mean I would miss two months of school due to rehearsal and performance. I would also be
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A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens was a Victorian writer . He grew up in London and therefore uses the city as the backdrop to most of his novels . Dickens took a keen interest towards the interaction between people of all classes which comes across in his writing. He would spend days simply wandering the streets of London in order to soak up the atmosphere and watch people pass by. These observations helped him to create larger than life characters in his novels. In his novels Dickens criticizes
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Page 1 Snow fell lightly on the cold ground outside as Robbie eagerly tore open his first Christmas present. When he saw the content in the box‚ his face fell in disappointment. “Socks! I didn’t want clothes! I wanted toys for Christmas!” Page 2--- Do you think when giving the kid socks the parents would really be shocked that the kid was disappointed? Maybe adjust the story line a bit here to be realistic. The story reads better and would be more sincere if this was almost a planned exchange between
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Ebenezer Scrooge a cold hearted miser who despises Christmas. Scrooge is a no good mean man that hates everyone. In the story Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens‚ there are very many noticeable themes about the novel. Charles Dickens makes the themes vary easy to find and understand. Everybody deserves or should be happy during christmas time. This is one of the themes I discovered early in the book. The theme means that christmas is a time for anyone to be happy and enjoy time with their families
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A Christmas Carol is a play that visits the past‚ present‚ and future lifestyle of Ebenezer Scrooge in order to show him how his attitude could shape Christmas. In A Christmas Carol there are many characters. In this essay‚ I will attempt to explain on in particular‚ Ebenezer Scrooge. Ebenezer Scrooge was a tall‚ middle-aged man with a white beard who sometimes wore reading glasses. Scrooge was also a wealthy businessman who hated Christmas and only cared about himself. He had lost his business
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When he was greedy and grumpy; he had no friends‚ no people to love or value him. Until he began to share his wealth with his clerk. It made him so merry with the fact that he could buy his clerk and his family a massive turkey on Christmas. He also made up with his nephew with as much as an apology‚ a visit‚ and a change to become a better person. While the turkey was an amazing gift‚ the true happiness came when Scrooge had the feeling of truly giving and by giving he found friendship
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getting any sleep‚ Charles had to get part time jobs‚ working during the day‚ and studying for school at night. The Christmas Carol is set in the Victorian Era‚ so the stuff that goes on in the Christmas Carol will be very similar to the things we read about. The Christmas holiday that the characters are celebrating will go by the same traditions that Victorian Era Christmas traditions go by. We will know why the people in the story are struggling the way they are and having the problems that
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Brooke Boyd English/Comp Mrs. Goslin 31 March 2014 Childhood Christmas to Adulthood Christmas Christmas as a child for me was very fun. I got many presents from Santa as well as many from relatives. Christmas was probably my favorite holiday of the year‚ to me it meant that if I was good enough Santa would bring me presents. Most of the time I was very good and never got into trouble. In my family when you go from childhood to adulthood it becomes a big deal. For starters you open presents
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