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A Christmas Carol Theme Analysis

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Themes of A Christmas Carol Stave 1 In the first stave of the Christmas Carol Scrooge expresses all kinds of different bad emotions. I am going to talk about how he acted greedy. Scrooge always wanted what he could get. On page twelve it shows him being greedy. Scrooge, a day before they had the big meeting gave an offer to gentlemen for something low price. The gentlemen did not take it at that time but at the meeting they told Scrooge they would take it and he said too late. Scrooge gave them a new offer but more expensive so he would get more money. Scrooge always wants things for himself to be more rich. Stave 2 In the second stave the ghost of the past comes. Scrooge shows sadness/ madness in the second stave. Scrooge gets to go back and see parts of his childhood. Scrooge was happy to see parts of is childhood, but he saw that he didn’t have a good life. Scrooge was left at the school till he grew old because of his father. Scrooge is very sad being alone when he was young and that his father was really mean to him. …show more content…

Seeing tiny tim made Scrooge have regret. Scrooge regrets the payment he gives to Mr. Cratchit. Since Mr. Cratchit doesn’t get paid that well tiny tim is going to die. The Cratchits don’t have enough money to pay for the cure for tiny tim. Scrooge is have huge regrets about this. Scrooge is now starting to worry that he will be like those people if he loses his wealth. Stave

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In the first stave, Scrooge, although he is wealthy, is such a miser that he won 't even allow his clerk to have enough coal to keep him warm. He insists on saving money by burning only enough coal to keep a small flame glowing whether the heat that it puts out is sufficient to keep the clerk warm or not. Scrooge 's greed is his downfall because he is so consumed with his money that he neglects the people around him, and when all is said and

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Then after he was down seeing his gravestone the ghost took him to see what his family was saying and doing about scrooge's funeral. Nobody wanted to go to his funeral, not his family, or other people that knew him in the past. But then Scrooge started to realize that the causes of him being greedy ment no one would want to go to his funeral. The effect,that no one wants to go to his funeral. Lastly Scrooge has said sorry to his family and they forgave him for what he has done.

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Although skeptical in the beginning, Scrooge begins to understand why he must change his ways, and he discovers what he can do to become a better person. Throughout most of the first chapter, Scrooge is very greedy. When two kind men come and ask Scrooge for a small donation to help benefit the poor Scrooge asks if any of the prisons or poorhouses are still in operation, and the men tell him: “Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.” To which Scrooge replies with: “If they rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” Scrooge was already being greedy by not giving money to the men, but he was also being extremely rude by saying people should hurry up and die.

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