Examples Of Greed In A Christmas Carol

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Is being greedy fun. A Christmas carol by Israel Horovitz. Scrooge is a cold hearted businessman. That we will see scrooge's transformation throughout the play. And the cause and effect of his actions.

First scrooge is a cold hearted business man that only cares about money. If people ask him if he will donate money to the poor he tells them to go die to decrease the population. And he will not even give money to his own family because of how greedy he is.

Scrooge's old business partner Marley died 7 years ago on christmas. But then he came back as a ghost to warn him that if he keeps being mean and greedy when he dies he will end up like marley. He told him about the change in the afterlife. It makes Scrooge feel like he really should try to …show more content…

When Scrooge was with christmas presents he was scared by what had happened with the ghost and things so he said that he would change and be nice. So he gave the homeless people on the street’s money and he bought a big turkey for his family to share. He had never done that before and it made him feel good.Also, when he was with the ghost of christmas future the ghost showed Scrooge his own grave stone and when he saw his gravestone, he was scared by it. 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. In the past. And his family knows that he is sorry because he bought them a big turkey for them to share. Also he feels bad about how he was mean to the people on the streets and gives them