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You probably know a lot of this book by heart. Still, I recommend picking it up and reading it.(Specifically, on Christmas Eve!)
Ebenezer Scrooge is a sensitive, smart, bookish kid with a weird name sent off to a school that embodies the word "Dickensian." He has a booming laugh, loves his much younger sister dearly... And his father was a complete and utter dick.
A Christmas Carol is a short, allegorical answer to the question, "how can I not be a dick, too, in a society s ...more
You probably know a lot of this book by heart. Still, I recommend picking it up and reading it.(Specifically, on Christmas Eve!)
Ebenezer Scrooge is a sensitive, smart, bookish kid with a weird name sent off to a school that embodies the word "Dickensian." He has a booming laugh, loves his much younger sister dearly... And his father was a complete and utter dick.
A Christmas Carol is a short, allegorical answer to the question, "how can I not be a dick, too, in a society s ...more
"Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to." p - 11
It's Christmas Eve and Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly businessman, is visited by the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley. Marley tells him that he must change his hard-hearted and curmudgeonly ways or else he wil ...more
It's Christmas Eve and Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly businessman, is visited by the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley. Marley tells him that he must change his hard-hearted and curmudgeonly ways or else he wil ...more
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