I favored the DVD over the written version of A Christmas Carol. Short stories and novels are not as interesting in my opinion. The book had a much darker tone throughout it. The movie had a slightly more lighthearted tone‚ with Scrooge laughing more often. There are multiple differences between the film and book‚ A Christmas Carol. Scrooge does not meet Tim on the street waiting for his father. The book does not tell a part about just Tim and his father. Marley’s ghost does not say his name repeatedly
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Sydney Carpenter Mrs. Keithley ELA 3rd 16 December‚ 2015 Compare and Contrast A Christmas Carol‚ both the play and the movie‚ have many similarities with just as many differences. Although the movie was created as a follow-up to the play‚ there were many times where the movie was completely different. On occasion‚ there would be times where you could follow along to the movie with the script‚ but most of the time‚ it would be somewhat the same.The script compared to the movie is more informing and
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“Imagination in A Christmas Carol” Graham Holderness says A Christmas Carol categorically that the writer’s imagination fails. Scrooge is allowed to slide into a rarefied limbo of Christmas sentiment and Christian charity‚ so abstract as to be empty of life and meaning. His encounter with the three ghosts is far more credible‚ far more realistic‚ than this closing vision of life of permanent goodness‚ which scarcely resembles human life at all. In one respect‚ of course‚ this misses the point
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THE THREE SPIRITS OF CHRISTMAS “A Christmas Carol” written by Charles Dickens is known all over the world‚ and is also translated into many different languages. This story is usually told around Christmas time. People use it as an allegory to remind each other the lessons that the three spirits of Christmas teach Ebenezer Scrooge. First of all‚ the purpose of the apparition of the three spirits is to give Ebenezer Scrooge the lessons about the true meaning of being human‚ the valuable of each
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NOSTALGIA BY CAROL ANN DUFFY Linda Wang When we were younger we might have been homesick at school camps or sleepovers at someone that is not family. But we were lucky for the next day we would return to our family’s embrace but there are people out in the world that suffer from nostalgia for years and decades before being able to see their hometown again. In Nostalgia by Carol Ann Duffy‚ the mercenaries‚ strong brave men‚ described in the poem are tormented by the same feeling of nostalgia. In
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Dickens’ The Christmas Carol and 19th century British society Dickens’ The Christmas Carol is known as a cute exaltation of the Christmas spirit’ of charity and love for our fellow man. Almost everyone growing up as a kid has read or seen some kind of version of The Christmas Carol during the holidays in the month of December. It is a story about a tightfisted lonely man known as Scrooge who learns to give and receive love which I think we would all agree is
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Scrooge has changed. There was no doubt about it. The stingy‚ cold‚ introverted‚ unappreciative fellow had become the most generous‚ warm-hearted‚ friendly‚ and open person you could find in all of England. Scrooge has been well aware that he had recently undertaken a tremendous change because he purposely brought it upon himself. Fred and Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim and his maid all oversaw that he upheld his vow of retaining the Christmas spirit in heart yearlong. He so far had been successful in
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Nat W. A Christmas Carol: Act One Analyzing Visuals 1. The Scrooge character‚ from the 1843 book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens‚ is an established archetype. What traits spring to mind? The Traits that spring to mind when I look at this picture are that he doesn’t seem like a very pleasant person‚ and is angry at something. 2. Read the sign in this photograph. Scrooge’s partner‚ Jacob Marley‚ is dead when the drama begins. How do moneylenders make money? Moneylenders are someone who
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A Christmas Carol is a play that takes place of a man who has lost the true meaning of Christmas. He calls Christmas a Bah-Humbug and says it is a waste of money. This man lives a lonely life with greediness. This man is called Scrooge. There are few differences between the play and the movie‚ but many similarities. Some people lose the true meaning of Christmas. After Scrooge loses the Christmas spirit‚ a ghost appears to Scrooge. The spirit was known a Jacob Marley. The spirit said that there
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Havisham Carol Ann Duffy penned a dark‚ cynical poem titled Havisham. The poem articulates a deep anguish dramatic monologue of a lonely old spinster lady – Havisham‚ a character from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Havisham was ditched on her wedding day by her fiancé‚ the consequences were that she was no longer respected and secluded from the society. Decades have past‚ Havisham remains in her wedding dress and cruses the love of her life for the pain and torture she has faced every
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