2. Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period ( 19 th century)

3. Main characters in the play:  Fred (Scrooge’s nephew)  Ebenezer Scrooge  Bob Cratchit (Scrooge’s employee)  Tiny Tim (Bob Cratchit’s adopted son)  Ghost of Christmas past  Ghost of Christmas present  The ghost of Christmas future A Christmas Carol

4.  It’s hard to imagine a Christmas season without the story of old Scrooge, “Bah Humbug! and “God bless us, every one.”

5.  Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and bitter man, is visited by three spirits to bring about his redemption before his death.  He learns to love the people around after being shown the love and generosity that symbolizes Christmas.

6.  As his faithful clerk Bob Cratchit works hard, Scrooge is visited by his nephew and invited to Christmas dinner the next day.  Two men who come seeking donations for the poor are dismissed with Scrooge’s wish that the poor would die and “decrease the surplus population.”

7.  Jacob Marley, Scrooge’s partner, had died 7 years before our story begins.  The first scene unfolds in the cold and sad office of Scrooge’s counting house.

8.  Scrooge is visited by the ghost of Christmas past.  Then he is shown the day when his beloved, younger sister Fan came to meet him after so many years.  The spirit also showed Scrooge the day when, as a young man, he compelled Belle, his fiancée, to end their relationship because of his obsession with his money.

9.  The Ghost of Christmas Present is the second of the three spirits.  This ghost shows him the view of his clerk Bob’s house condition where they are celebrating Christmas even tough they don’t have enough to eat  Bob’s younger son Tim is crippled and ill and he proposes a toast to Scrooge. Tim will die unless he receives treatment.

10.  The ghost of Christmas future is the ghost that haunts the miser Ebenezer Scrooge  This ghost showed him a scene from the future where a body is laying on the road and nobody is ready to do the cremation  Scrooge recognizes the body as his own

11.  Scrooge is shocked with what he has seen.  Scrooge decides to change himself for the good  Scrooge is a changed man now  He takes Tim as his own child  And takes his nephew into his business

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