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Loneliness In A Christmas Carol Scrooge's A Christmas Carol

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At the beginning of A Christmas Carol Scrooge is mean,lonely,and unthoughtful.The texed showes that scroog is mean becouls he’’a few carolers enter,including a few children.one boy stepes up to regale Scrooge as they sing.Get away from here you!I don’t ask to be bothered with that’’(6).And why he is lonely is that the text states that’’I wish to be left alone. I don’t make marry my selfe at Christmas’’(6).Also why he is unthoughtful is that’’I can’t afford to make idle people merry.I am taxed for the institutions I have mentioned,and the cost enough.Those who are badly off must go to the workhouses.’’(6)Scrooge changes from these traits through his experience with the ghost of the Past,Present,and Future. When the ghost of Christmas Past visits
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