A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens
The four main characters in the book are Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob
Cratchit, and Ebenezer Scrooge's nephew, Fred.
This story takes place in London, England. The time is winter December 1843
and it starts the day before Christmas, also known as Christmas Eve.
Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character of the story, All 3 ghosts visit
him. Through him, the lesson of the story is to be learned. In the book, he
is made out to be Anti-Christmas, some are feeling pity for him, other
hostility.
"External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could
warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than
he.Nobody ever stopped in the street to say, with gladsome looks, 'My dear
Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?'. No beggars implored
him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man
or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a
place, of Scrooge."......
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