A Christmas Carol is a secular story of Christmas time in an urban setting (Perdue 141). The story tells the sacred story of Christmas as well. Ebeneezer Scrooge is a miserable but wealthy business man. He is selfish and treats everyone, even his own nephew, badly. Bob Cratchit is Ebeneezer Scrooge's nephew. Scrooge despises Christmas. He calls it, "Humbug!". Charles Dickens wrote his book during the Industrial Revolution, which is reflected in the character of Ebeneezer Scrooge. He is mean and hateful and could care less about his workers. In the story when two men came into his shop asking for a donation, Scrooge tells them that if they die it would just help the population problem. Bob Cratchit is Scrooge's nephew who works for him. He gets paid very little and can barely afford to support h

When Scrooge is taken by the three ghosts he is able to see visions of memories. These visions bring him excitement and happiness because they are of times when he was a boy. He is able to remember what it was like to be a child. These memories soften Scrooge. These memories are versions of Dickens's own experiences (Bender, 79). By using versions of what happened in his own life, it makes it more realistic to the readers. The lonely boy "reading as if for life," and saved by reading. Scrooge was left in Chatham to finish his Christmas term while his family goes off to London. These experiences that can definitely leave a scar in a person's life are demonstrated in A Christmas Carol. They are what help turn Scrooge into a lonely and isolated man. In making himself invulnerable, he shuts out humanity as well(Bender,80). Dickins can show his readers what happens if you isolate yourself from the rest of the world. This happens to Scrooge becayse paradoxically, in trying to triumph over his past, he has forgotten what it was like to be a child, he was forgotten what it was to be lonely, friendless, cry, laugh, and love(Bender, 80). This is true, Dickins is trying to show what it can be like to be miserable. He wants to show us what can happen when you are all caught up in the moment that you forget the person you use to be. Because of the ghosts that came to Scrooge he si able to recover his past and become a new person. It is good that Dickins ended the book that way because his readers can see that people can look to their pasts to help them move forward and have a better future.

Charles Dickens, when writing A Christmas Carol poured out his love for the poor, depicting the social injustices of his time that the conscience of the country was stirred to reform (Irving 221).

Dickens' book has several levels of meaning (Stone 74). Yes, in Dickens book by having these different levels of meaning he is able to relate to all of his readers. Through Scrooge, Dickens attempts to embody symbolic, social, psychological, and mythic truth (Bender, 78). He is and outrageous miser, but he is also an emblem of more ordinary pathology (Bender, 78). At the end of the story, Scrooge touches the lives of the readers and the other characters in the book. Dickens uses Scrooge to show how people can change, it is possible. People say that a person can't change their ways because they have been like that too long, they are hopeless. You read A Christmas Carol and you are able to see someone change that everyone thought was hopeless and it shows you that it is possible for a person to change.

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