With its memorable cast of characters such as Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is the most heart-warming of seasonal tales, a timeless classic that continues to enchant readers around the world and a lesson in charity and hopefulness that is as powerful today as when it was first written in 1843. This experience teaches Scrooge the true meaning of the holiday and leaves him a transformed man. Charles Dickens, 'The Haunted House: The Mortals in the House,' Dickens' Christmas Stories, Lit2Go Edition, (1859), accessed May 23, 2023. One Christmas Eve, however, he is visited by a series of ghosts who reveal to him the innocence he has lost, the wretchedness of his future and the poverty of the present, which he has so far ignored. Ebenezer Scrooge is a lonely, miserly old man who hates Christmas, which he dismisses as “humbug”.
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