“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach,” (Dickens 46) Throughout his life, Scrooge has mistreated, disrespected, and taken almost everyone in his life for granted. He simply knows of no other way to treat the other people around him. Especially at Christmas time is when Scrooge was the most hateful and selfish to anyone and everyone around him. All alone in his bedroom, Scrooge receives a very unexpected, surprising, and even chilling visit from his dead business partner, Jacob Marley. Warning Scrooge that if he does not change, he will end up just like he did, all wrapped up in white bandages, drowning in heavy …show more content…
As a result of three separate visits from the ghost of Christmas past, Christmas present, and the ghost of Christmas yet to come, Scrooge decides the way he treats people needs to change for good. The three spirits had a lesson to teach Scrooge, and it was the fact that if he does not start to treat people nicely, he will turn out just like Jacob Marley did. Scrooge woke up abruptly in the pitch dark blackness of his room and he looked up at his clock and time had went backwards. The curtains of his bed were suddenly drawn aside by a mysterious hand. “Scrooge, sitting up into a half-recumbent attitude, he found himself face-to-face with the unearthly visitor who drew the curtain before him,” (Dickens 14) The strange figure before him had the complexion of a young child and the hair color of an old man with a bright clear jet of light on his head shining upon him. Scrooge then realizes with little uncertainty, that this figure was the Ghost of Christmas Past. His voice was soft and gentle, as he was beside him, he seemed as if he were at a