1- Title: A Christmas carol
Author: Charles Dickens
Niveau : f

2- Summary:
Ebenezer Scrooge is a grumpy old men, and he hates Christmas. When Bob asks him if he can go home early, Scrooge says:”Then you must come to work early tomorrow”. His business partner Jacob passed away 7 years ago. When Scrooge wants to go to sleep, Jacob comes by. He warns him that there are three ghosts coming. At 12 O’clock the first one comes and he tells him that he has a bad history and that he always hated Christmas. At 1 O’clock the ghost from the present comes and shows Scrooge Tiny Tim, Tiny Tim is very sick and an operation is very expensive. At 2 O’clock the third and the last ghost is coming, the ghost from the future, he shows Scrooge how people will react to the death from Tiny Tim. When Scrooge wakes up in the morning he is a good man and pays the operation from Tiny Tim and he wishes everyone a:”Merry Christmas”

Main Characters:
Ebenezer Scrooge: he is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. He is very rich but not very generous, but in the end he is a nice man.

Jacob Marley: He was Scrooge's business partner but now he is dead and he warned Scrooge that he has to be nice.
Bob Cratchit: he is poor. He works hard and he is a good man.
Ghost 1: he is from the past, Ghost 2: he is from the present, Ghost 3: he is from the future. They all want that Scrooge turn to a nice man that gives to other people.

Place and time
In The Christmas time, actually in the night before 25th December in the 19th century.
The story takes place in England, in the office in Scrooge's bedroom.

Could the story really happen?
Yes and no. Yes, because there are bad and moody people, and if you experience a near-death experience you can turn good.
And no, because I don’t believe in ghosts that let you see the future and the past.

What are the most important happenings?
That the ghost from the past came by
That the ghost from the present came by
That the ghost from the future came by

What does the title mean?
The title is a Christmas carol. And the story takes place around Christmas, and a carol is song.

3- How is the story told?
The story is told from the first person and a teller.


What is the genre?
Fantasy and Christmas.

4- what wants the author to accomplish with the story?
That you have to be nice to people and respect them.
That you think about your own live.
You can be moody and always stupid but that is not a solution.

5- what do you think of the story?
I like the story because an old moody man becomes nice. And I like how it is written and the illustrations are also beautiful.

Is there any excitement?
Yes, there is excitement in the story. Because you don’t know how the story ends will he be nice or a old moody man. And when the three ghosts are coming. I think that the whole book is exciting.

Could you identify with the main character?
No, I can’t, because I don’t hate children and I am not as old, and I can be grumpy sometimes, but not all the time.

Which character did you find nice or stupid and why?
I did not like Scrooge in the beginning, because he hated children and was not nice to his employer. But in the end when he was nice because he was visited by the ghosts. I liked him very much.

And I liked the ghosts because they did a good job for Scrooge.