Marley’s Ghost marks Scrooge’s first steps towards redemption. Marley comes wearing the “chains he forged in life”‚ informing Scrooge that his spirit will be “doomed to wander through the world” if he does not change his ways. Marley warns his former business partner that “he has yet a chance and hope of escaping his fate”‚ implying that Scrooge cannot redeem himself on his own. When Scrooge is informed he will be visited by three ghosts‚ Marley‚ in a blatant manner‚ suggests that “without their visits”
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selfish‚ rude and lonely”. In my opinion there are many reasons why he was so grumpy all the time. I think the biggest reasons why he is like that is because Marley had died. Marley was his soul mate and only friend. I would feel upside down if I was in Scrooge place. Another part that shows that Scrooge is cold hearted is that he makes his clerk Bob Cratchit shiver in the anteroom because Scrooge refuses to spend money on heating coals for a fire. Dickens puts many adjectives about Scrooge in this part
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happy and enjoy time with their families. The theme shows that every single character in the book goes by this rule except for scrooge. Anyone can have a change in heart. Scrooge is a very mean man but even he can change. That is what the ghost of marley believed. I believe that This is true
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Scrooge. Then he leaves and Past takes him to his old school house‚ then Fezziwig’s‚ where he was apprenticed‚ then to when his love left him. Present takes him to the Cratchit’s‚ where he sees how poor they are‚ and Present tells him that Tiny Tim‚ Bob Cratchit’s son‚ will die if kept at the current state. Then he’s taken to his nephew’s house‚ where he proposes a cheer to his uncle‚ Mr. Scrooge. Then he makes a joke of how Scrooge thinks Christmas is a Humbug. After that‚ Present leaves him with
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The Jello Introduction The poem An Angel for Bob by Richard Stevenson is a poem about two men working at a store one training the other to stock shelves and the product falls off the shelves causing one of the men to have a melt down and quit his job leaving the store. Those events work together to prove that in unfamiliar situations it is often hard to understand what acquaintances are going through in their personal lives‚ but through their actions we can sympathise and come to terms with their
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about. He is ignorant towards any unnecessary spending of the money. Lastly’ he ignores his families attempt to socialize with him to make him more affable. On the first‚ Scrooge wants only his money as if he were the small boy. Scrooge knew he [Marley]‚ was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I do not know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor‚ his sole administrator‚ his sole assign‚ his sole residuary legatee‚ his sole friend and sole mourner
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I. Summary of the Case The case study centred around a successful newly appointed project head‚ Bob Knowlton. Bob recently received the position from his friend and former project head‚ Dr Jerrold. All was going well until a new member‚ Simon Fester joined the team. Simon soon proved to be more capable and more idealistic than Bob and his team in every aspect. In the short term‚ his knowledge and idealistic nature proved to be an asset to the team. As the case goes on‚ we can say that Simon
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movie What about Bob‚ I chose to write about the Character of Dr Marvin‚ the psychiatrist who goes on a vacation with his family and finds Bob‚ one of his multi-phobic patients‚ following him everywhere because of being attached to him. Dr Marvin chooses to act negatively to what Bob is doing and shows three different ways or mechanisms to deal with his anger. These mechanisms are denial‚ projection and displacement. As a result of being provoked and followed all the time by Bob‚ Dr Marvin feels
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many similarities between the drama play and the movie. There are also many differences. In the play‚ Scrooge is a greedy‚ self centered man who cares for nothing but money and himself. His old‚ dead friend and partner‚ Marley‚ visits Scrooge in the night to tell him to change. Marley sends three spirits to haunt Scrooge to enforce that change. Scrooge is shown his past by the Spirit of Christmas Past. Past shows Scrooge a Christmas long ago where he is alone in the school house. “The schoolroom is
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will remember the past the present and the future. In the very beginning of the novel Scrooge did not care about his past live‚ the activity going on now and the upcoming. All he cared about was making enough money for himself. In the beginning when Marley said that you are going to be visited by three ghosts. Scrooge said that he would rather not. Then he said he would always keep the lessons that they taught within him and he would always let them strive with him. Those two are examples of how Scrooge
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