Which is your favourite Christmas story? Well, there are many stories set during Christmas. The one of Ebenezer Scrooge’s Christmas holidays unfolds in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol, the defining tale of Christmas in the English language.
Scrooge is an elderly miser who dislikes Christmas. The story opens on a Christmas Eve, seven years after the death of his business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge first turns down his nephew’s dinner invitation and turns away two men who came for donations. He gives his clerk a day off, only because of the social custom.
Things change when Marley’s ghost visits him that night, followed by three other spirits-Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future! The Ghost of Christmas Future terrifies Scrooge by showing him visions of his own death. The ghosts’ journey through time teaches Scrooge the error of his ways.
When he wakes up on Christmas Day he is a changed man, full of the joys of Christmas.
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