A Christmas Carol Comparison

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Compare and contrast essay for A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol is a very, famous story. It is written, in different languages, in different fonts, and in different places around the world. A novel this classic, can't be passed up for hollywood film directors. So over the years, many Films about the christmas carol have been made. And most of the time the film is a little different. Here are my opinions about the movie, and the Novel.
Some of the biggest similarities i saw through the movie and the story, where, that scrooge in fact hates christmas, and celebrations like it .Scrooge's sister comes to bring him home for christmas. It also shows scrooge's discussion with Belle, and how she leaves him because he is too busy to pay attention

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