Truth Revealed In A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens

Have you ever watched a paranormal show that had you thinking if spirits were real and lived amongst us? Today, I will be talking about it in the book called, A Christmas Carol. When I first started reading this book, Anthony Horowitz, the introducer, explained how Charles Dickens started his career as an author. He started out stating, “The author seemed to use an awful lot of words to tell his story, and quite a lot of those words had far too many syllables for my liking. There were too many pages. It all felt too much like hard work.” He explained how Charles Dickens was being too explanatory in his writing and added too much in the story that the reader might stop and think, “What’s he trying to make me comprehend?” The reader may also ask themselves, “How can I understand his writing if I don’t know what he’s trying to say to me?” Then, Mr. Horowitz turned it around by stating, “What’s really great about Dickens is that he was a wonderful storyteller with ghosts, murderers, lunatics, lovers, revolting villains, dashing heroes, eccentric aunts and lovable rogues leaping across the pages.” He explained how Charles Dickens’ best ways of writing a story was based on categories that were in his area of expertise. I strongly believe that anybody can write a great story if they put their mind to it and use their creativity. Based on the introduction, I believe the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, came in contact with paranormal activities, spirits or ghosts, which would show him his life in the past, present, and future tenses so that he could make a decision to change his life for the better. In this paragraph, the spirit from Ebenezer’s past appeared and tried to show him things that were faint memories. The first stop was a city, which vanished but became clearer to him as they approached their destination. Ebenezer was excited and filled with joy, for he was beginning to remember everything that used to be there. He then stated to the spirit, that he could walk through the city blindfolded. They both moved further into his past and stopped at a warehouse door, where he was considered a fine young man and an apprentice to Mr. Fezziwig. During this time, Ebenezer was filled with joy and happiness for he saw most of his old friends entering the warehouse dancing and having fun. However, he was beginning to feel a bit emotional, for his eyes were filling with tears of happiness and joy. At this point, Ebenezer began to wish that he could not go back in time and be that same joyful man. Last, they moved and stopped in a room where he saw himself and Belle, his crush, in a beautiful mourning-dress. They began to speak about what they wanted for the future. Belle, not satisfied with Ebenezer’s reply, said to him, “The memory of what is past half makes me hope you will have pain in this. A very, very brief time, and you will dismiss the recollection of it, …show more content…
He began to laugh and smile as he realized that the spirits had shown him what it’s like to be merry on Christmas and New Year’s rather than being angry and mad at the world. Then, Ebenezer told a boy that if he brought back the prize turkey with the man in charge, he would pay him a shilling, if he did this in less than five minutes, Ebenezer would give him a half-a-crown. He even wore nice clothes and went to church to celebrate Christmas for it was the time of year to be joyful and happy. Next, Ebenezer stopped at his nephew’s house to join him on this wonderful holiday while everyone was shocked and surprised to see him in their house. I believe that Ebenezer Scrooge changed his life based upon contact with the spirits of the past, present, and future. It helped him understand that having power or money does not make you better than the person next to you. Nor does it make you happy and satisfied, many of times; it leaves you along and sad. I want everyone to go home, pray to god and ask him, “How can I be happy and show love towards others even if I don’t like