Greed In A Christmas Carol

A man with greed is a man with no friends, heart, or soul. Greed is a horrible thing. It is a hot and burning desire for money, fame or anything else that would please a person. there was a man in a book, play, and movies called a Christmas Carol. His name was Ebenezer Scrooge and he was an old man full to the brim with greed. He had no christmas spirit and called it a “humbug!”(Dickens 3) Now poor Ebenezer needed to be taught some very needed christmas spirit, so one christmas eve, he was visited by his old, dead, business partner’s ghost, Jacob Marley. He tells Scrooge that he will be visited by 3 ghosts that will teach him about the true meaning of christmas. the 3 ghosts names were: past, present, and future. Past was the first to come. He showed scrooge visions from the past of himself and how happy scrooge was as a boy and young man. Present showed scrooge the family of his college Bob Cratchit. Bob was a poor man with a big family. On christmas eve his wife prepares a moderately small meal of a turkey and fig pudding, but despite their lack of money, they are happy. He shows scrooge that he is now something of a tyrant and that his behavior makes problems for other …show more content…
The play provides a much more in depth and detailed telling of the story, whereas the movie had to cut a lot out of the script because of their time limit. for example: Scrooge is still the old, mean spirited heartless, scowling man. But some differences are: in the movie you get to learn fat and skinny mans name, Jacob Marley's head doesn't come off instead he just opens his mouth and screams, and past is a woman instead of a man. Altogether, a Christmas Carol is about a mean man who learns the true spirit of christmas through a series of visits by ghosts who convince him to change. As I said, the movie and the book are very similar, but they are also very entertaining and