The way Scrooge acts in the story says a lot about him, but so does the description about him in the sixth paragraph. The passage clearly states that Scrooge is “a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone” and is “hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel struck out a generous fire.” Furthermore, the passage continues to show more detail by saying that he’s “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner” and “solitary as an oyster.” All of this shows a generous amount of greediness and coldheartedness. The text even says “the cold within him froze his features,” which proves the point that he is not a very happy camper. The story continues and compares him to weather and how it can be beautiful, while Scrooge cannot be. As it continues, we discover that Scrooge hates Christmas and everything related to it (including carolers, donors, etc.) …show more content…
The spirit takes him on a trip down Memory Lane to remember a few moments in Scrooge’s past when he appreciated a few gestures other people did for him or with him. He realizes that, after seeing himself reading in a room with objects he remembers, he says, “‘There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something.’” Then, after seeing himself when he was an apprentice and watching how well his boss treated him, he explicitly states in the text, “‘I would like to say a word or two to my clerk right now.’” This shows a change in Scrooge. Back in the First Stave, he gets mad at his clerk for wanting to take Christmas off, but now he’d like to go back and speak to him. Maybe to
In this paragraph I am going to look at is Scrooge's actual description, the language Dickens uses in this emphasises his cold heartedness fantastically. A quote from this describes his physical appearance "The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. " The language he uses here is very descriptive and he describes each feature of Scrooge in a very unappealing way to the reader.
Impacted can be defined as having a strong influence in a positive manor on someone or something. Scrooge was impacted most by the Ghost of Christmas present in the novella A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. The Ghost of Christmas present taught him how to show kindness to others, and showed Scrooge how he affected those around him.
The text explicitly states Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous, old sinner has passed away. According to the text, he despises many things such as happiness, humor, and even Christmas. From the reading, I know that he is depressed all the time, consequently his mental state has led him to call other people stupid, dumb, and idiots. On page three, in the conversation with his nephew Fred, Scrooge insults his nephew about marrying and loving his wife. The text states, that he also “seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the frost and even more congenial frost.” From the reading I know that Scrooge isn’t a people person and is very down about life. Based on the text he doesn’t really like being around them. For example Scrooge didn’t donate any money to the poor, and blew off his nephew about spending Christmas with them. In the text it states that there is no wind as bare as Scrooge, this means he doesn't really care or doesn't have many feelings.
According to the text, Scrooge is a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, who emphatically worships money. Meanwhile, in addition, the text says that Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, clutching, covetous, old sinner. In the text it states, “Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal, but he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal in his room.” The ghost of Jacob Marley visits Scrooge and by showing him a reflection of himself, begins the reformation of Scrooge as we know him at the borderline of the story. The spirit leaves him the opposite from where he was at in the beginning. Throughout the entire beginning of “A Christmas Carol” The miser demeanor is “hard and sharp as flint from which no steel had ever struck”. The text states on page 3 how Scrooge feels about Christmas when he says to the two men who were soliciting money for the poor, “What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ‘em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? ”
Dickens indirectly characterizes Scrooge in many ways in A Christmas Carol. He does this by showing how greedy,hateful, and cold hearted scrooge is. The first way he characterizes Scrooge is by showing how cold hearted he is. In A Christmas Carol dicken describes how scrooge's heart has froze. Dicken states “The cold within him froze”(621). Scrooge's heart cold he is to everyone and everything. Scrooge is so cold that his heart has froze.Scrooge is so cold towards everyone and thinks there is no reason to be happy. Making christmas especially not important to Scrooge. Since christmas is a holiday to be happy Scrooge thinks christmas is a waste of time and their is no reason to be marry. This is indirect characterizes towards scrooge because he is cold hearted.
At the beginning of the story, Scrooge is a very greedy man he only cares about himself. There are many ideas of knowing how he is greedy, he doesn't like giving his money to people unless he has to. Scrooge has been this way ever since his wife marley passed away because he thinks he doesn't have anything left. When he goes out on the streets,
Scrooge is the main character in the story “A Christmas Carol”. Scrooge is a bitter old man that is unfair, plaintive unlikable, nihilist well as very rude. Moreover, Scrooge doesn't like anything that involves happiness, generosity, including most of all, Christmas. Consequently, his dead business partner’s ghost comes and warns him that three different ghosts will try to help him recover his old and peaceful self.. Scrooge’s experience felt fancied. On page one of the first passage one it says “ Scrooge is the grumpiest grump that ever .” In the text, it said “ Scrooge makes him leave (his nephew) but not before he insults his marriage because it is based on love.”I think that is a very excellent reason to back up that he is a very mean and
Based on what I read, Scrooge is a tight fisted-hand at the grindstone. As a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching covetous old sinner, his reputation in the community is perceived as a ill-mannered man. According to the text, Scrooge is hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel has ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. In the text it states that, “Scrooge’s appearance is topped with his frosty rime on his head and his eyebrows makes him appear shrewd and cold.” Scrooge pronounce “What’s Christmas time to you but paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having everything.
Scrooge was a man who did not like to give anything to anyone and was disgusted with Christmas. Throughout the story, Scrooge went on an adventure. Three Spirits showed him what happens when he does not give back and does not support his community. Scrooge is having a hard time accepting people and being gentle with their feelings. He will not even let his accountant take Christmas Day off.
exist as it occurred in Scrooges life. As you can see also, Scrooge was not a young man
In stave 1 of 'A Christmas Carol', Dickens convey's the character of Scrooge by presenting him in many different scenes. At first glance, the reader sees him as a cruel, cold hearted miser who seems to hate everyone but himself. However, could there be more than meets the eye?
In the movie a Christmas carol scrooge is visited by 3 ghost that showed his past,present and future.scrooge hated Christmas because be cause his partner Jacob Marley died on that very day seven years ago scrooge is also very heartless to the people who want to help him his nephew even invited him to dine with them for Christmas he said no his nephew loved Christmas but scrooge did not .
In Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is visited by Three Spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. In Stave IV Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, and the spirit shows him a scene of Scrooge in the future. In this stave, Scrooge gets severely frightened at what his future might hold. The Ghost shows him is what will happen in Scrooge's future if he stays the way that he was at the beginning of the story. Out of all the scenes that Scrooge is shown, the one scene that really got across to Scrooge was the scene where he was shown his own grave. Proving that the spirits before the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come had proved their point, he starts
In the movie "A Christmas Carol" Ebenezer Scrooge was a lonely cold hearted man who despised everyone in his sight. As scrooge sat down in his studies the ghost of his old business partner Jacob Marley. Jacob explained to scrooge the he would be visited by three spirits of Christmas that will show him the past present and future
Mr. Scrooge has become a shell of the person he used to be before greed took over him in his younger years. He has formed a wall full of stones to hide from his past neglects and regrets, which made him the miserable person he was before his visits with the ghost. He is a selfish, cruel, and bitter old man consumed with nothing but misery. He resents anyone who is merry and joyful around Christmas time. Mr. Scrooge believed money brought happiness, yet he was so miserable. Mr. Scrooge barely wanted to allow his clerk, Bob Cratchit, off work on Christmas Day. When he did he was complaining the whole time, even though he doesn’t pay Mr. Cratchit enough money to even support his family. Two gentlemen stopped by his business and asked Mr. Scrooge