The story begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge’s business partner Jacob Marley. Scrooge is established within the first spell (chapter) as a greedy and miserly businessman who has no place in his life for the kindness, compassion, charity, or benevolence. After being warned by Marley’s Ghost to change, is Scrooge visited by three ghosts “each in turn” caused him to various scenes in the hope of achieving its transformation. The first of spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge to scenes of his childhood and youth that stir the old miser gentle and tender side to remind him of a time when he was more innocent. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present takes Scrooge to several radically different scenes (a pleasure-filled market of people buying the makings of the Christmas dinner, the family party for Scrooge’s near-poor clerk Bob Cratchit, a miner’s cottage and a lighthouse among other places) in order to evince the miser a sense of responsibility for his fellow man. The third spirit, the Ghost of Christmas to come, harrows screw with serious vision for the future if he does not learn and act on what he has witnessed. Scrooge’s own neglected and untended grave is revealed, ask the miser to mean that he will change, hoping to change these “shadows of what might be.” In the fifth and last stave, Scrooge awakens Christmas morning with joy and love in his heart, then spend the day with his nephew’s family after anonymously sending a prize turkey to Crachit home for Christmas dinner. Scrooge has become another man overnight, and now treats his fellow man with kindness, generosity and compassion, have a reputation as a man who carries the spirit of Christmas. The story ends with the narrator confirms the validity, completeness, and duration of Scrooge’s transformation.
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