He became kind and nice, loving and caring, friendly. .
A Christmas Carol is a very special story because Charles Dickens uses the characters as an outlet for his emotions. Charles Dickens grew up impoverished like his clerk Bob Cratchit. It is really almost a short story, and is a tribute to his memories and as well as to the spirit of Christmas. .
A Christmas Carol has been a family favorite in my family for many years. Among our other Christmas traditions reading A Christmas Carol out loud has been one of the more enjoyable aspects of the day. This heartwarming tale transcends cultural boundaries and reaches out to adults as well as children. Dickens' writing evokes the dark mood of sorrow and it's transformation into the joyous face of happiness with skill and makes the reader identify with the characters plight's. From the initial "Bah Humbug" to the concluding "God bless us, everyone," Dickens' poignant novella holds our interest and our emotions. .
On Scrooge before: .
Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge. a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, .
scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever .
struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. 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. A frosty rime was on his head, .
and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with .
him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas. .
and Scrooge after: .
Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not .
die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as .
the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world.
