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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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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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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altered his ways and became a jovial philanthropist who made an impact on many others. The novella A Christmas Carol was written as a message for society to embrace the Christmas spirit. Throughout the novella‚ Charles Dickens showed us Scrooge’s change from a despicable man to a cheery humanitarian‚ with the influence of three spirits who show him how his past‚ present‚ and future. The Spirit of Christmas Past showed Ebenezer the significance of spiritual values instead of material ones. The spirit was
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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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What do A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens‚ The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe‚ and Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving have in common? Yes‚ they were all written by famed and renowned authors. But a literary professor would perhaps favor the answer “They are all political writings.” However‚ these are not the only political writings out there that are fiction. As Thomas C. Foster states: “It always— or almost always— is.” During the mid 19th Century‚ a new politico-economic thought
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Christmas is by far the holiday season. Christmas‚ in general‚ has always been controversial. Some people think there’s not enough religion in it‚ some think there’s too much religion‚ some people don’t celebrate at all. Despite all arguments‚ Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year for a sleighful of reasons. The first of the reasons why Christmas is so holly is Christmas Music. Christmas is notorious for being the music holiday‚ and Christmas music‚ even though it can be grating
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Lack of Self-Belief Lack of belief in one’s own abilities is also a common problem in goal setting. Let’s face it; if you really believed you could achieve your goal‚ you probably would have done it already! (Unless your goal is a brand new one‚ of course. But most people set the same goals multiple times before they actually achieve them.) How can you tell if you don’t have a strong belief in yourself? Probably the most telling clue is that you’ll hesitate when it comes to
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I like the movie a christmas carol more than the book. The story a christmas carol has been a very famous story for a long time. The move was better because you could see the actions the charters was taking. Every time the charters mood would change in the movie the lighting or the music would change. Some of the differences of a christmas carol book and a christmas carol movie is in the movie the mood changes a lot more and in the movie there’s a lot more detail .The book has detail but it does
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character within the novella as a contrast to Scrooge’s cold and stingy character. As shown in the extract‚ Fred is ‘Cheerful’ and ‘handsome’ whereas Scrooge is ‘self-contained’ and his features were ‘shrivelled’ by the ‘cold’ (Stave 1). Fred is the son of Scrooge’s beloved but deceased sister‚ he is the only living relative and person who wants to pull him out of isolation and back into the world. Dickens was focused on Scrooge’s complicated character in contrast to Fred who did not have much personality
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