Comment on Scrooge's transformation in the Christmas Carrol. Look at the visit of each ghost and comment on the tone and style of each of the writings
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From reading 'A Christmas Carol' I have discovered many things about Victorian London, Dickens and the dramatic personality change in Scrooge over the two-day period.
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Compare and Contrast Scrooge in Stave 1 and in Stave 5 in Charles Dickens novel a Christmas Carol.
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A Christmas Carol - Explore Scrooges Transformation from the beginning of the novel to the end.
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Presentation of the character Scrooge.
Presentation of the character Scrooge In both the film and the text, Ebenezer Scrooge is an unhappy man who doesn't celebrate Christmas, at the beginning of the story, but at the end he is completely the reverse, he has become happier, and has now started to celebrate Christmas. In stave 1 Scrooge is thought to be miserly, cruel and stubborn. However by stave 5 he has become happier, merry and aware of people around him. In Stave 1. In the text of 'A Christmas Carol' Scrooge is described to act miserly towards his clerk, Bob Cratchitt as he was feeling cold and wants to light the fire but Scrooge refuses. Also Bob asks for Christmas Day off work, but Scrooge replies by saying that is 'inconvenient' and 'unfair' as he'll be losing money. This is showing that Scrooge only thinks about himself and not people who are worse off than him. In my opinion Dickens is using the figure of Scrooge to describe the way the rich treated the poor in Victorian times, but a typical rich man is described to be extremely obese with a jolly attitude and living a luxurious life. As you can see Scrooge's attitude is the complete opposite of a typical rich man, which must mean that he has got the attitude of a poor man during the Victorian period that had very little money. The cruelness that Scrooge shows is through the way he treats his nephew, Fred. When Fred asks Scrooge to go to
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Carolina Resk House of the Spirits Composition Ms. Viegas Throughout the novel, "The House of the Spirits," we find many elements of Magical Realism. Like many Latin American writers, Isabel Allende uses this type of literature which is a combination of the real with the magical. The book is based on Clara's (protagonist) journals in which she writes all the occurrences that happen in her life and therefore the book becomes a testimony of the events that took place in the time. Fate also takes a very important role in the novel. Chance or strange twists of fate recur repeatedly in The House of the Spirits. As mentioned before several elements of magical realism are found on the novel which creates a mystical atmosphere. Some examples of this uncommon type of literature would be when the narrator describes one of the characters, Rosa. It says, "...Rosa was white and smooth, without a wrinkle, like a porcelain doll, with green hair and yellow eyes- the most beautiful creature to be born on earth since the days of original sin..." (pg.4). Allende refers to Rosa's green hair as though it were out of the ordinary, yet not unheard of. Moreover we can include to this magical atmosphere the way spirits and ghosts are always present in the story. They become part of the family, of the history. One scene that can be cited is when Ferula's spirit comes to say good-bye in the big