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    Ebenezer Scrooge Each year‚ Christmas rolls around and everyone is on their best behavior and all the Christmas chaos begins. There is shopping needing to be done‚ food to be cooked‚ presents to be wrapped‚ and trips to the mall for a not-so-original picture with Santa and his elves. Despite the hectic nature of the season how can anyone not like the hustle and bustle of Christmas? In A Christmas Carol‚ Ebenezer Scrooge defiantly loathes everything about Christmas. Scrooge would rather just work

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    falling like diamonds from the grey sky. I remember the feeling that endeavours your soul‚ a feeling of ease‚ of peace and happiness. I love winter and all that relates to it.  The Christmas was coming and my family was preparing for it. The day before Christmas‚ my mom with my grandmother’s help‚ prepared her Christmas specialties: sarmale (minced pork mixed with rice and spices then rolled up in marinated cabbage leaves)‚ roasted brown chicken‚ mashed potatoes‚ cherry sauce and different types

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    contract an illness such as cancer often make radical changes in their lifestyle and behavior when confronted with the fragility of life. In literature‚ change is often accompanied by great drama such as A Christmas Carol where the character Ebenezer Scrooge tries to find out who he is. In A Christmas Carol‚ Dickens uses the supernatural to dramatize the need for Ebenezer Scrooge to change from miser to socially responsible citizen. At the start of the novella‚ Scrooge is a bitter man who is obsessed

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    The film version of ¨A Christmas Carol¨ is extremely more preferable. The literature version just simply doesn’t give off as much of a mood‚ the text is extremely too dull. In written form the story isn’t pulling me in‚ and appears like a fantasy. The text is just not appealing‚ and that’s the main reason why the movie is better. Although I love to read‚ I like watching movies better. Both the movie‚ and the story are very fun to watch and read. I recommend you to check them out‚ they’ll most likely

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    A Christmas carol 1. Give five examples of the interesting use of language in the extract. -There is a large variety of interesting use of language throughout the book ‘a Christmas carol’. At the start of the book Dickens uses metaphors. The first line in the book is: ‘Oh! But he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone‚ Scrooge!’ Grindstone is a thick disc of stone or other abrasive material mounted so as to revolve‚ used for grinding‚ sharpening‚ or polishing metal objects. This suggests

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    Set up against the rampant industrialization of the 18th century‚ Charles Dickens classic novella “A Christmas Carol” endorses the notion that all people have a responsibility to ensure the safety and welfare of every member of society. By taking his seemingly irredeemable protagonist Ebenezer Scrooge on an other worldly journey. Dickens intends to convey to the complacent classes of the age‚ the necessity of various traits that are essential in life‚ such as the responsibility for those whom are

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    “This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want” A Christmas Carol contains lessons not only for Scrooge but for the society of Dickens’s day. Discuss Charles Dickens’ classic novella‚ A Christmas Carol endorses the belief that all life is precious and equal. A Christmas Carol contains lessons not only for Scrooge but for the society of Dickens’s day. Through the supernatural journey of protagonist Ebenezer Scrooge‚ Dickens intends to convey to the contrast between the two classes of the era and the

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    awakening to find it is Christmas morning. He has been given an opportunity to repent after all. Scrooge does so and becomes a model of generosity and kindness." Source: Wikipedia/Charles Dickens/A Christmas Carol When scrooge saw the ghost of Christmas future he saw that he was going to die and then if he changed his ways he could live on and so he wanted to change. A Christmas Carol  There are several ways to show how Scrooge changed his attitude to  Christmas in A Christmas Carol. As his attitude

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    Scrooge‚ the ultimate Victorian miser‚ has not a good word for Christmas‚ though his impoverished. Clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. Nevertheless‚ in the night‚ spirits of another color visits Scrooge. Straightforward adaptation of Dickens. The two people affect scrooges in the story are his sis death‚ and his girlfriend. The Ghost says they will see another Christmas‚ and the young Scrooge grows larger as the room becomes dirtied. A little girl‚ Scrooge’s sister Fan‚ runs

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    Christmas produces many of my favorite‚ cherished memories. Christmas smells‚ like gingerbread‚ peppermint‚ bayberry‚ simmering pots with orange peels with cloves and nutmeg make the season come alive. We didn’t bake a lot‚ but we always made fruitcake - not the traditional fruitcake. I dad’s mom used to make a moist spice cake and added chopped gumdrops‚ figs‚ and dates. It was the moistest cake I have ever had. I remember I was one of those kids who could never sleep well Christmas Eve. I

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