When reading Charles Dickens stories one can feel as though they belonged in the story itself. The reader is able to establish connections with the characters that come forth in the story. There are many characters in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol that the reader develops a bond. Dickens uses a creative technique to pull in the reader that it is astonishing how he changes the readers’ view of the main character. Although Scrooge was terrible man at the start of the story, he eventually grew on the reader as the story progressed. Dickens was able to encase the reader in the story by touching the reader’s heart. The reader was exposed to poverty, cruelty, and death, as well as many other circumstances that occurred in the story. Dickens used this to help the reader to become involved with the action that occurred with this story. Honestly who would want to read a story that did not try to get a reaction out of the reader? Dickens tries to open the reader to all emotions such as hate than love even being fearful for the future of the characters. Dickens also used wrote about a character that people could hate but he also decided to change the character through the story little by little. With doing this he helped the reader to also root for the character to try and change. The reader …show more content…
Dickens used these ghost to represent all ghost that plague the lives of people. Dickens was most likely wanting to instill the knowledge into people that these ghost merely represent our moral compass. One might say that Dickens these ghost represent what Sigmund Freud discovered late on in life. The ghost could show the reader the desires of Scrooge as well was what his behavior but this was changed when he was shown his future. The ghost of Christmas Past represents the Ego. The ghost of Christmas Present represents the id. The ghost of Christmas Future represents the