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A Christmas Carol By Jacob Marley

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To me the DVD was the best. Mostly because you could actually visual what was happening. The book was okay but not my favorite. The book and movie A Christmas Carol was really good. Both writings had many similarities, but no so many differences.
In both the movie and the story Jacob Marley was dead, and his name was still on the sign where Mr. Scrooge worked. One night Marley started to haunt Scrooge and told him about what would happen to his future if he didn’t straighten up. There were also three spirits that came to his house, there was the ghost of Christmas past, the ghost of the Christmas present, and a ghost of the Christmas yet to come. All three spirits took the Scrooge somewhere. The ghost of the Christmas past took Scrooge to
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