Nicole P.

Lopez

X - Excellence

A Christmas Carol

Vocabulary

1. Rampart – a protective barrier.

2. Gait – a person’s manner of walking
3. Covetous - having or showing a great desire to possess something
4. Opaque – something that is unclear
5. Recumbent – something laying down
6. Despoil – to steal violently
7. Ironmongery - originally referred, first, to the manufacture of iron goods
and, second, to the place of sale of such items for domestic rather than
industrial use

Characters

1. Ebenezer Scrooge - He is a very cold-hearted, selfish man, who has no love

for Christmas, children, or anything that even resembles happiness
2. Jacob Marley - the business partner of Scrooge who died 7 years ago.
3. Bob Cratchit - is the abused, underpaid clerk of Scoorge
4. Fred - believes that there is good to be found in everyone, even his misanthropic
uncle Scrooge
5. Old Man - calls himself as the Ghost of the Christmas Past.
6. Fran - Scrooge’s younger sister.
7. Fezziwig - he is an jolly old man
8. Belle - She is a prominent figure from Ebenezer Scrooge's past.

Setting

It is set in a poor section of London, England, during the Industrial Revolution (1800s). The book takes
place mainly in Scrooge's business, Scrooge's house, and Bob Cratchit's house

Summary

He believes Christmas is the same as every year, a day in which he should pay his bills. He invites
Scrooge to dine with him tomorrow but he rejects him. Two people enter and ask Scrooge for charity for
the poor. A caroler sung at his door, the he scared the caroler away. He then tells Bob to work on
Christmas Day and he went home.Scrooge eats dinner at a tavern, then goes to his home. Scrooge saw a
dead Marley face in the knocker of his door until it went away. It gave him a pause, but he chose not to
be frightened. Then he warms himself by a small fire. A bell in the room starts to ring and after that all
the other bells ringed too. After a while the bells stop, and Scrooge hears the cellar door open.Marleys
ghost transparent and he was in long chains made of keys, padlockers, etc. Scrooge claims he doesnt
believe the ghost exist but he soon admits he does. Marley says his spirit was wandering since he died as
punishment for being with business and not with people. He came to warn Scrooge because he has the
same fate. Scrooge looks it the window and sees the fog to be filled with with chained spirits. He then
goes to sleepHe wakes up and wonders if he slept through the day and another night. Then a light
comes in the room and a small-like old man appears.He introduced himself as the Ghost of the
Christmas Past. He says he is there for Scrooges welfare and reclamation. He was affected by the
memory, and he walks to town with the ghost. They see schoolboys and the ghost explains that the
people they see are just people of the past and they dont see him and Scrooge. The ghost then shows
Scrooge that one boy that was ignored in school is alone and Scrooge cried.They walk into a school
house then they see a young Scrooge reading alone by a small fire. The older Scrooge cried again, and he
regrets ignoring the boy caroling last night. The ghost says he will see another Christmas and the young
Scrooge grows larger as the room becomes dirtier. Fan enters the room and announced she is bringing
him home for Christmas as their father is much kinder than he used to be. Fezziwig gives Scrooge and
another worker a night off for Christmas Eve. Scrooge and his friend clean up and built a fire. Then he
remembered that he was just revisiting the scene with the ghost. Scrooge tells the ghost that Fezziwig
giving happiness to his friends is more important the the money he spent.Scrooge now sees and older
version of himself in his prime. Then the scene changed with belle now a mother of a brood of children.
Her husband told her that he saw Scrooge sitting on his office window.. Scrooge then asked and beg the
ghost to take him back to the present. Then he sank into a heavy sleep for he was conscious that he was
exhausted and overcomed by and irresistible drowsiness.

Reflection

We should focus on how is our life going to be instead of our desire for money. We shouldn’t be
greedy and we shouldn’t be affected by the past but we should focus more on our present and
how it will affect our future.