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A Christmas Carol Themes

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A Christmas Carol
In my paper, I plan on explaining different themes of A Christmas Carol and how people should read it. When I was a kid my mom would read me a shorten version of A Christmas Carol. I really don’t like reading but A Christmas Carol is one book that I love to read, and I will describe in my paper the many themes this book has that made it so good. I will have research to back up the themes and why the themes are important to the book. I will describe a couple of themes that relate to the text and why people agree with these themes. I had a couple themes in my mind they are isolation, transformation, and compassion and forgiveness.
There are many types of themes for this novel but these three stuck out out to me. Isolation was
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