Scrooge In A Christmas Carol

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"Bah! Humbug! (Dickens,1843,pg.238) Scrooge would say when someone tells him Merry Christmas to him. Scrooge was a very unhappy man and he hates Christmas. But throughout the story, Scrooge evolves by changing his attitude towards the world with the help of three ghosts. Which are named Past, Present, and Future the ghost of Christmas? With the help of the ghost, Scrooge soon realizes what he had lost he became a person that he was always a jolly person.
To begin with, Scrooge begins to change when he was greeted by the Past the ghost of Christmas. (Dickens,1843, pg 257-258) Scrooge went back to the past of what he used to be. He watches a Man and Women break up which made Scrooge sad. The Man was supposed to be an older Scrooge. "no don't

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