Title
The title of the book is ‘A Christmas Carol’, the theme of the story is all about the Christmas spirit, about being together with your loved ones and celebrate it with each other. It’s a time of giving love, happiness and warmth, even though the weather outside is cold. The theme of the story is about being a good-hearted person, being kind, caring, loving and helping towards other people.
Novel
This novel has different themes. You can see it as a psychological novel, the main character is going on a adventure, looking for his own Christmas feeling that he never had. He never believed in the purpose and meaning of Christmas and has always been a cold-blooded person. But three spirits will bring him on other thoughts and so he turned in to a lovely old men, that isn’t scaring off people anymore, but kindly says ‘Good afternoon and a merry Christmas’. The story also learns you to be a good person, to be kind to other peoples,. It’s important to also care about other persons feelings, you can’t read from their faces what’s going on at home, so it’s good to encourage and help them. You can also see it as a novel with a Christmas theme, Christmas was a great and huge holiday back in those old days. People were coming together to celebrate it with friends and families, eating lots of food and having the time of their year.
The characters
Scrooge
Scrooge is a lonely, old men that isn’t very kind to people. He owned a factory with his good friend Marley, but when his friend died, Scrooge continued to run their business alone. The expression of Scrooge scares people off, because he has a mean look. He owns a lot of money, but he is so greedy that he even tries to live as cheap as possible.
Jacob Marley
Jacob Marley was a good friend of Scrooge, together they ran a successful business until Marley died on Christmas eve and Scrooge lead the business on his own. When Scrooge came home from his work, Marley appeared as a ghost in front of him and warned Scrooge that he needs to change his way of thinking and acting towards people, life and Christmas.
Bob Cratchit
The only employee of Scrooge is Bob Cratchit. He’s very poor and has a big family that he needs support, his youngest son is very ill. The Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to come. All of them came to Scrooge, to begin with the Ghost of Christmas Past. He showed Scrooge his past, his childhood, the town where he grew up. The Ghost of Christmas Present came second and he took Scrooge to the house of his employee Bob Cratchit, to show him what kind of impact Scrooge his behaviors had on his employee and his family. The last ghost was the Ghost of Christmas Yet to come. Scrooge is the main character of this story. Jacob Marley was his best friend and business partner. Seven years after the dead of Marley, Scrooge hired an employee named Bob Cratchit. All the three ghosts came to visit Scrooge, to take him on a adventure to different kind of times in his life.
Theme
This play is about an old men named Scrooge, who is going on an adventure in time, guided by three different ghosts. The purpose of this adventure? To change the way of Scrooge’s living, thinking and being as a mean and negative old men.
Place and time
The story takes place in London and begins on Christmas evening in 1843, seven years after the death of Jacob Marley. The three spirits take Scrooge to his past, the present and the time that might can be his future.
Chapters
This novel is divided in 5 different chapters:
Chapter 1 - Stave One: Marley’s Ghost
Chapter 2 - Stave Two: The First Of The Three Spirits
Chapter 3 - Stave Three: The Second Of The Three Spirits
Chapter 4 - Stave Four: The Last Of the Spirits
Chapter 5 - Stave Five: The End Of It
All the titles of the chapters are based on what’s going to happen in this story, just by reading the titles it’s clear of what is going to happen in the chapter.
Time Sequence
The story is told in a special chronological way, because there are flashbacks and flash-forward’s as well. The Ghosts Of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to come take Scrooge into different times of his life.
Perspective
- The omniscient is used in ‘A Christmas Carol’
- It wasn’t hard to read this book, the writer didn’t use lots of difficult words, just sometimes. Some words like humbug, melancholy, garments weren’t in my vocabulary yet, so a dictionary was handy while reading this story.
- The novel has a closed ending. After Scrooge woke up from his wild adventure, it became clear for him that he needed to change and he immediately did. He became a happy, understanding and cheerful person.
Writer’s background
Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth. He was an English novelist that was popular in his lifetime and still is right now. His work has been praised for its comedy, realism, unique personalities and concern for social reform by writers like George Gissing, Leo Tolstoy and G.K. Chesterton. Charles Dickens grew up in a big family, his parents John and Elizabeth and seven siblings. John Dickens was a clerk in a payroll office of the navy. Charles dreamed of becoming a gentleman at a very young age, despite his family’s financial situation. His father John was arrested and sent to dept because he didn’t pay a debt. Besides that, Charles needed to work in a shoe-polish factory. Charles Dickens was deeply marked by these experiences . He rarely spoke of his childhood. But within a year the situation improved for the family Dickens. Charles was released from his duties at the factory and his father was free to go from jail. When he was fifteen years old, he became secretarial in a Law Firm and later a reporter by a newspaper. From then on he began to write short stories, which became very successful. He never quit writing from that moment. Charles Dickens got married and ten children. Later he divorced and died on June9, 1870.
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