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    Jacob Marley from ‘A Christmas Carol’ changes through the whole story. He has a creepy outfit. He treats people much different after he died. He is almost like Scrooge. Jacob’s clothes change from what he would normally where because he died a greedy man. Since he died being greedy he was held in shackles and cloths. He was also a ghost which is normally creepy. We don’t really know what his clothes were before he died. The chains and shackles represent all the terrible things he has done in

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    between the book and the movie. In the scene where Scrooge meets the ghost of his old business partner Jacob Marley, there are very noticeable alterations. In the movie Scrooge is visited by Jacob and Robert Marley, however, in the book Scrooge is only visited by one specter which is Jacob Marley. Surely you would agree that in the book Scrooge is eating gruel shortly before the phantom of Jacob Marley appears. Despite Scrooge eating

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    In the story, 'A Christmas Carol', we're introduced to the protagonist chaacter name, Scrooge. Scrooge hates Christmas as we are introduced in the first parts of the book along with introduction with Jacob Marley. He hated Christmas so much, it even caused the 3 ghost's of Christmas to come visit him when he was sleeping. Due to this, it is caused by his selfishness, greed, and many more. The first part in the story made the readers feel like he was an antagonist at first, but he was the protagonist

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    A Change for the Better Published in 1843 A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens has withstood the test of time as a classic telling the story of Scrooge as he changes for the better. He is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future, showing him his life in segments as this happens, he finds the good in himself and changes his ways. Scrooge has changed significantly throughout the text, specifically through his actions, thoughts, and dialogue. To begin, Scrooge changed through

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    similarities/differences between A Christmas Carol and a 1969 Animated Film A Christmas Carol from Charles Dickens, which are Marley the Ghost, the ghost’s characteristics, also the Christmas day events. On a bitter Christmas Eve Ebenezer Scrooge started his transformation from Marley’s dead message. Scrooge’s deceased business partner, Jacob Marley has a message

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    T’was the night before Christmas and Ebenezer Scrooge was full of greed. Charles Dickens wrote the drama, A Christmas Carol in the year 1843 and the movie created in the year 1984. In this movie, a man named Ebenezer Scrooge hated Christmas and never gave any gifts or money to those in need. Although, there is not just a movie, there also is a drama that is also used for entertainment. While the movie and drama compare to be very similar, the drama has different parts too when contrasted to the movie’s

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    man he let his love go and his business partner Jacob Marley died. He always wears a top hat and a black top (like a jacket). The way they dress is one way to tell this was very long ago. By the way they were dress you can tell that it very long ago in London City. Once, in his life when he was younger he loved a girl so very much but he let her go. Ever since then he was working with his partner in the counting house and his name was Jacob Marley how had died and Scrooge didn’t care has much

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    The novel A. Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens's in the novel Scrooge.Scrooge is visited by three ghost and they are trying to bring Christmas spirit back to him.After Scrooge is visited back to his past and to his future he relives that he is not the man he is supposed to be after he visited his grave cite. I am going to be writing a essay about what scrooge said and what does he mean by saying that,and do i think that scrooge followed his own conclusion.Here is what I am going to write what are

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    of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens has a few main themes, one of which is regret. Dickens starts out this repeated theme with a man named Jacob Marley. Marley is an ex-business partner of the main character Ebenezer Scrooge. Marley’s dead ghost visits Scrooge in the night to warn Scrooge that he faces the same fate that Marley ultimately found. Marley regrets his lifestyle and choices, and wants to let Scrooge know he has a chance to avoid eternal regret. This story is how the novel starts out

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    life of Ebenezer Scrooge, a cold-hearted, miserable old man. Dickens’ focuses on Scrooge’s harsh behavior and actions during Christmas time with a supernatural twist, for he is visited by a series of ghosts including his deceased close friend, Jacob Marley. In this spirited story, the author also makes meaningful use of literary devices such as similes, personification, and imagery to represent change. In Stave 1, Dickens’ uses similes to compare Scrooge to other matter in order to give the reader

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