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.

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The two were successful, and started their own counting house called Scrooge and Marley. Throughout the beginning of the story, it is shown that Marley's love for money runs very deep within him. As the years went on, Marley as well as Scrooge swindle and talk their way into getting everything !

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 wealth, which relates back to the same message that was delivered by Scrooge's nephew earlier.

g they have and not to take anything for granted. Bob is the one in this story to loves his family, and everything he does is for the welfare of his family. He is a fantastic example of how a human being should be.

To show Scrooge that wealth isn't everything, and to show him the lives of others in his life the three spirits are introduced. Now even though these spirits are at times showing Scrooge some negative scenes, they are in fact providing Scrooge with valuable insight into his own life, and the life he has been living. So really what the spirits are doing is a positive thing. When picturing a spirit, many people would envision a body wearing white, and looking almost holy. The association with white is that of the "good team," or something that is right.

It is quite easy to make the distinction between the positive characteristics of Cratchit, and the negative characteristics of t

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

Category: English