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About A Christmas Carol

Scrooge is unexpectedly visited by the ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley on Christmas Eve who died seven Christmas Eves ago. He too was a miser from the same mold as Scrooge and was therefore suffering the consequences of his wrong deeds in the afterlife. He therefore makes Scrooge visualize that he too would be haunted by three spirits. The three spirits were the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. These three successfully showed Scrooge the error of his ways. His transformation is gradually recognized. Scrooge sends a Christmas turkey to his long-suffering clerk, Bob Cratchit n Christmas morning. He is even seen spending the Christmas day with his nephew, Fred, whom he earlier had spurned. Scrooge's new-found benevolence is clearly noticed when he decides to raise Cratchit's salary. He even vows to assist his family which would also include Bob's crippled son, Tiny Tim. Dickens conclusion ends with Scrooge becoming ' as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew'.

No one other than the crippled Tiny Tim touches the heart more than the foreshadowed to Scrooge by the Ghost of Christmas. The major theme in A Christmas Carol's root is in Dickens' minute observations of the plight of children of London's poor. It was said that during that period sex was the only pleasure affordable by the poor the resultant of which was the birth of thousands of children who spent their lives in utter poverty, filth, and disease. Dickens analyzed that this vicious cycle of poverty could only be broken through education. He therefore showed interested in the Ragged Schools in London. Most of the poor children had to remain uneducated. The growing demand for child labor along with the apathy of parents who themselves were wretchedly poor and uneducated forced them to be illiterate. Dickens therefore initiated to introduce these children in A Christmas Carol which he implements through the two twins Ignorance and Want. The Ghost of Christmas Present shows them a wretched and almost animal in appearance, to Scrooge with the warning: "This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased."