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The Story of A Christmas Carol |
A Christmas Carol is regarded as a classic and it requires no introduction. Published on December 19,1843 A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (that’s what the original name of the book is) was written by Charles Dickens who was primarily intent on paying off his debts with the money he would have raised by the sale of the book. Besides selling six thousand copies in a week, it did something far more dramatic. It literally raised Christmas from its ashes. The book was written at a time when the popularity of Christmas, with its related traditions was dwindling. It redefined Christmas and people’s understanding of the same.
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A Christmas Carol is the story of a miser by the name Ebenezer Scrooge whose whole life had been dedicated to accumulation and preservation of wealth. So miser was he that he could gleefully forsake anything for material pleasures. The story unfolds seven years after the death of Jacob Marley, Ebenezer’s business partner on the Christmas Day with Scrooge frowning at his nephew, who had come to greet him. He rudely dismissed two gentlemen who had come down for collecting charitable donations on behalf of the poor and made explicit his disdain for the poor Laws and Workhouses. After grudgingly granting a leave to his clerk Bob Cratchit, he returned to his town house, originally the abode of his former business partner Marley. It is here that he experienced eerie happenings with Marley’s face appearing on the door knob and warning him to change his selfish ways or else he would have to end up in hell just like Marleys. According to Marley’s words he gets visitations from three spirits, The Ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, who provide him with visions of his previous deeds, his present acts and his future acts to be. But the critical state of Tiny Tim, the son of Bob Crachit pains him and his heart melts. The rest of the story deals with how he goes about changing himself for the better.
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