Christmas Carol

A detailed Summary of Christmas Carol

"Bah! Humbug!" "God bless us everyone!" These phrases draw both positive and negative images to mind. The two lines are famous phrases from Dickens' Christmas Carol. The first line belongs to Ebenezer Scrooge, and the second line was by Tiny Tim. In this famous story, which was written by Charles Dickens, there is a very obvious use of positive and negative characters. Dickens uses many different actions, words, characteristics, details and mannerisms to show how the character is positive or how the character is negative.

One of the first characters that is introduced in the book is Scrooge's partner Marley. Marley is the type of man that loves money. When he was young, he received his first job working for a man in a counting house. From a young age Marley loved money, and knew he wanted to have a great deal of it in his life. It wasn't long after he had been working at this counting house that Scrooge joined Marley. Scrooge had been working for a man named Fezziwig, who ran an opposing counting house in town. Scrooge was offered more money elsewhere, and he left Fezziwig. After working together for a while, Scrooge and Marley worked a plan to undermine Fezziwig and get his business from him.

By the end, it is Scrooge that is exemplifying positive attributes. Since by this time Scrooge has realized the error of his ways, and that money is not everything in the world, nor it should be. He is running up and down the streets spreading cheer, giving out money, and doing good deeds for all he sees. Scrooge even sends turkey to Cratchit's house, gives him a raise, and extra coal!

One of the other main characters in this story is the underpaid, humble, and very grateful Bob Cratchit. Bob Cratchit has worked for Ebenezer Scrooge for many years. He is, and has always been underpaid by Scrooge. But Bob has never said anything about it. He has never once complained about the fact that he is not receiving the amount of pay that he deserves. This is just the kind of man that Bob Cratchit is. He is not the type of man to be consumed by money and wealth. What Bob Cratchit is consumed by is his family. His family is the most important thing to him in his life. Dickens shows this fact by Cratchit's actions. To show that he isn't bitter towards Scrooge, he proposes a toast to Scrooge at the dinner table, even though his family doesn't like Scrooge, Cratchit says they should be grateful towards him because of the job he gives Bob. Bob Cratchit is a great influence in this story because he gives the attitude that everyone should be grateful for everythin!

In some ways Scrooge could be considered more of a positive influence, than a negative one. Dickens uses Scrooges negative characteristics to make a point. By showing the bad side of Scrooge, Dickens exposes the greed, and love for money that is predominantly found in our society. While showing how money can corrupt negatively, Dickens counters this negativity with Tiny Tim's character. He uses Tiny Tim by giving Tim a happy, go-lucky, and optimistic outlook on everything. So even though Tim, and his family don't have the money that Scrooge has, they are still happy. Thus, Dickens shows how people in general can be happy even without w

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Approximate Word count = 1360
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English