Mini Plot: Ebenezer Scrooge is a penny-pinching miser in the first degree. He cares nothing for the people around him and mankind exists only for the money that can be made through exploitation and intimidation. He particularly detests Christmas which he views as 'a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer'. Scrooge is visited, on Christmas Eve, by the ghost ... outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and t...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!" He thinks of Christmas as a "humbug", "Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer", "if I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with merry Christmas ... to the sun, and this is twelve at noon!" He is also unsure whether Marley really did visit him, or whether it was just a dream. "Every time he resolved within himself, after mature inquiry, that it was all a dream, his mind flew back ag...

• Word Count: 5644
• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: High School