with others. Although the characters in A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations assess the value of people only in terms of their financial contributions to society‚ they learn that self respect and dignity can be derived from means other than the possession of money and prestige. Through Scrooge and Pip‚ Dickens shows how the love of money does not lead to happiness but rather defiles the soul‚ depriving it of morality and grace. In A Christmas Carol‚ Scrooge shows that his passion in life is
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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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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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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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Discuss how dickens uses “A Christmas Carol‚” and the character of scrooge to promote a more caring‚ less selfish society. In the 19th century‚ the poor people faced a very atrocious and frightful life in London. They starved if they had no jobs and had nowhere to live except for streets which were filthy and filled with crime. There was a poor law‚ as there weren’t even state benefits and if someone couldn’t pay the rent for the room they were given to stay in they were moved to union workhouses
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Dickens shows the reader that the important things in life cannot be measured. Discuss. Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” paints a bleak world of 19th century industrial society with the stark division of classes. Despite this miserable‚ poverty stricken setting‚ Dickens portrays a range of characters that have been affected by this social cataclysm‚ illustrating each of their responses to it in order to illuminate what the important things in life are‚ and how they can be measured through
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Celebration Christmas in My Country Almost all the countries in the world celebrate Christmas on December 24th but in my country we cebrate it on January 7th. Christmas is the biggest celebration of Christians. Each countrys has its onw traditions to celebrate Christmas‚ although some of them are similar. In my country Ukraine we celebrate Christmas in special way‚ preparing to it very carefully and keeping old traditions. The Christmas Eve is considered as the most interesting part of Christmas as it
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august 2010 Redemption “A price paid for sins” Redemption is a concept typically associated with religion. It is defined as receiving forgiveness for the commission of sin. For Christians‚ the terms redemptions and salvation are often used interchangeably. When an individual pledges to mend the error of his ways‚ his soul will be absolved of past sins at the time of death and achieve an external afterlife. This religious connotation seems to imply that redemption comes only with
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