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    In every childhood‚ it is hard to find a hobby which is the right one‚ the coolest‚ the funniest and which one is the most interesting. There are several themes for this story for example finding a hobby another one could be that he would prove himself. I would start with explaining why I choose finding a hobby as a theme. In the story Michael the main character plays the piano and at the end of the story it says “Six month later‚ I started violin lessons” (Page 12 Line 168). In the start of the

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    American philosopher‚ Wayne Dyer‚ once said‚ “If you change the way you look at things‚ the things you look at change.” If you realize what you have done wrong‚ you can change how you act the next time you are in the same situation. In the play‚ A Christmas Carol‚ the main character‚ Scrooge‚ was only able to look upon money‚ nothing else. To change‚ Scrooge had to change the way he looked at money and his life; he needed to focus on the more important things‚ like family and caring for others. In the

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    A “Christmas Carol” is an engaging social commentary written in the form of a novella‚ which outlines the plight of the poor‚ with the intention of altering the views of the wealthy‚ in Victorian London society. Dickens himself was a victim of the Poor Laws which were a by-product of the industrial Revolution‚ and wrote this novella with the hope of making life more bearable for the poor. Dickens uses the appealing nature of his descriptive novella‚ in order to subtly promote a change of attitude

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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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    With marelys arrival‚ there wasn’t just one bell ringing either‚ there were numerous which made Scrooge feel a little surrounded. 6. What was Marleys purpose for visiting? the reason for marleys visit was to warn Scrooge of the three ghosts of Christmas Pasts that will be coming to visit him and to show him his pasts to hopefully change Scrooges cold heart to a loving and caring man. 7. What is marleys fate? What do the chains

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    Compare and contrast essay I will compare the history of “A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley” that is a play with the film “From Scrooge”. They are the same history develop in a different way because they roll in entertainment the world are different. I like a lot plays but also the movies. Let´s checks its comparison. Characters in the history are completely the same ones. Neither another character neither a missing character. In the play‚ characters are like more expressive and sarcastic‚ like

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    In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens‚ a reclusive character is portrayed by the grumpy old Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge‚ the main character of the story‚ was an old man living in his own terms. However‚ grave iniquities were naturally overflowing in his veins. Scrooge detested the human kind in general. His misanthropy caused his greediness and lack of interest in life. His selfishness and awful misanthropy‚ however‚ changed with the help of the three ghosts. In the midst of the gleeful Christmas

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    The 1977 version of “A Christmas Carol” by BBC is a very accurate rendition of the book it was based on by Charles Dickens written in 1843. This movie comes with its strengths and weaknesses‚ most of its weaknesses coming from the quality of the film production and the movie’s strengths coming from it’s striking resemblance to the earlier made novel. The short movie mirrored the book in so many ways that only really small details were left out such as Scrooge going to the tavern to get his dinner

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    which he was traveling jumped a gap in the line‚ causing the central and rear carriages to fall onto the riverbed below. Dickens was in the only first-class carriage to survive. The first accident‚ in the story of ’The Signalman’ involves an awful collision between two trains in the tunnel‚ most likely to be based on The Clayton Tunnel Crash‚ in 1861‚ five years before Dickens wrote the story. ’The Signalman’ is not a typical ghost story because it is set mainly in the daytime‚ although it it still

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    Dickens’ story “The Signalman” makes use of several elements and techniques to create suspense from the very beginning to the end. Some of them are typical of the fantastic genre to which this story falls into. There are many suspense features of remarkable transcendence such as the presentation of the characters through a narrator in first person‚ the implementation of imagery to describe the setting and the already mentioned characters and the contrast between reality and the supernatural world

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