The Spirit In Bob Marley's A Christmas Carol

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Based on what I read, Scrooge sounds like an old grumpy, greedy, disrespectful man. According to the text it states that, he is grumpy and very hard to handle. Also, the text states that he doesn't really care about a plethora of things like Christmas because he does not get the point of Christmas. On page one, the author describes how he was exceedingly rude to a boy who shows up asking for any donations for the poor, but Scrooge tells him to leave, and argues that anyone who is poor can either go to jail, or go to the workhouse. All because he doesn’t believe in the poor. Marley, Scrooge’s dead partner, comes in and reveals a couple things, “‘Ghosts of terrible people have to endlessly work to make the world a better place.’” When Marley …show more content…
Then Scrooge and the spirit went for a walk and, after a while Scrooge just starts to talk about his depressing childhood and starts to be depressed and starts to cry. According to the text, Scrooge and the ghost stopped for a Christmas-vacation-spent-at-school days. Then after the spirit and Scrooge got tired of it and grabbed the extinguisher cap and tries to smother the kids, or grandpa ghosts with it. However, Scrooge is still very depressed from talking about his childhood. Then the ghost kind of melted into the floorboard and Scrooge falls asleep, which is clearly his go-to method of coping with a …show more content…
After experiencing the events of the night with the Spirit of Christmas Past, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the air through which his spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery. In the text, it shows how Scrooge is thinking of the present foren he is dead. But when Scrooge dies, he wants someone to care about his death, so Scrooge gets the message, since he was so mean and cruel will get him to the end. “The spirit stood among the grave, and pointed down to the one,” Scrooge vows, “‘I will keep Christmas in my heart, tell I may try to keep it all the year.’” The text states that, Caroline will be thankful for Scrooge death. The only thing that Scrooge wants is someone to just care about his

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