Ana Luque Medina

A CHRISTMAST CAROL
BY CHARLES DICKENS
 MAIN CHARACTERS

• 口 EBENEZER SCROOGE WAS A MISERABLE MAN WHO ONLY CRAVED HAVE MORE MONEY
AND ONLY CARED ABOUT HIS BUSINESS.
• 口 BOB CRATCHIT: EBENEZER SCROOGE'S BUTLER
• 口 MRS. CRATCHIT: WIFE OF BOB CRATCHIT
• 口 FRED: NEPHEW OF MR. SCROOGE
• 口 LITTLE TIM: THE INVALID (PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED) SON OF THE CRATCHITS
• 口 PETER CRATCHIT: ELDEST SON OF THE CRATCHITS
• 口 JACOB MARLEY: PARTNER OF SCROOGE, DECEASED YEARS AGO
 SUMMARY OF THE STORY

• EBENEZER SCOOGE WAS A MISERLY OLD MAN WHO CRAVED MONEY FOR ON TOP OF
EVERYTHING. THE STORY BEGINS WITH THIS CHARACTER SITTING ON HIS COLD LIVING ROOM
ON CHRISTMAS EVE. HIS BUTLER, BOB CRATCHIT. APPEARS ON THE SCENE SHIVERING WITH
COLD BECAUSE HIS BOSS, MR. SCROOGE, REFUSED TO SPEND HIS MONEY ON COAL FOR HEATING.
SCROOGE'S NEPHEW INVITES HIS UNCLE TO THE ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY. TWO CORPULENT
GENTLEMEN ALSO PASS BY AND ASK SCROOGE FOR AN ALMS, WITHOUT HOWEVER, SCROOGE
REACTS UNPLEASANTLY TO THESE TWO MEN. THIS FACT CONTRASTS WITH THE KINDNESS OF
HIS NEPHEW WHO ANSWERS THEM WITH A MERRY";MERRY CHRISTMAS!" A LITTLE LATER THAT
NIGHT, WHEN MR. SCROOGE RETURNED TO HIS COLD AND DARK HOUSE, RECEIVES A CHILLING
VISIT FROM THE GHOST OF HIS DECEASED COMPANION YEARS AGO JACOB MARLEY.
• MARLEY, WITH A PALE APPEARANCE, EXPLAINS HIS UNFORTUNATE STORY: AS A PUNISHMENT FOR HIS LIFE FULL OF
SELFISHNESS AND GREED, HIS SPIRIT HAD BEEN CONDEMNED TO WANDER THE EARTH DRAGGING HEAVY
CHAINS.THE FORMER COMPANION OF THE PROTAGONIST OF THIS STORY HAD THE HOPE OF BEING ABLE TO SAVE HIM
FROM THIS SAME PUNISHMENT. MARLEY INFORMED SCROOGE THAT HE WOULD RECEIVE THE VISIT OF THREE SPIRITS
DURING THE NEXT THREE NIGHTS.WHEN MARLEY'S GHOST DISAPPEARS, MR. SCROOGE FALLS INTO A DEEP
SLEEP.EBENEZER, THE PROTAGONIST, WOKE UP MOMENTS BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST,
A GHOST OF CHILDISH APPEARANCE AND BRIGHT HAIR. THE SPIRIT ACCOMPANIES SCROOGE ON A WALK TO THE PAST,
TO THE PREVIOUS CHRISTMAS FROM THE FIRST YEARS IN WHICH HE BEGAN TO BE SO GREEDY AND SELFISH. ON THIS
WALK, SEROOGE WAS INVISIBLE TO THE REST BUT COULD SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING. IN IT, HE REVIVED HIS
CHILDHOOD, WHEN HE WENT TO SCHOOL. HE COULD REMEMBER HIS TIME AS AN APPRENTICE NEXT TO THE
CHEERFUL MERCHANT FEZZIWIG AND HIS COMMITMENT TO THAT WOMAN WITH WHOM HE SHARED A BEAUTIFUL
STORY, UNTIL SHE LEFT HIM SINCE HIS GREED FOR MONEY OVERSHADOWED HIS ABILITY TO LOVE HER. SCROOGE,
DEEPLY MOVED, POURS OUT HIS TEARS OF REGRET BEFORE THE GHOST RETURNED HIM TO HIS BED.THE GHOST OF
CHRISTMAS PRESENT, WAS A MAJESTIC GIANT DRESSED IN A GREEN SKIN ROBE THAT TOOK SCROOGE FOR A WALK
THROUGH LONDON TO SHOW HIM WHAT CHRISTMAS WAS GOING TO BE LIKE THIS YEAR. SCROOGE OBSERVED THE
SMALL FEAST THAT THE CRALCHIT FAMILY WAS PREPARING IN THEIR HUMBLE HOME. IN IT HE DISCOVERS BOB
CRATCHIT, THE INVALID SON OF THE FAMILY, WHO DESPITE HIS PROBLEMS WAS A CHILD FULL OF COURAGE AND
KINDNESS, A FACT THAT EXCITES SCROOGE.THE SPIRIT THEN TAKES SCROOGE TO HIS NEPHEWS' HOUSE TO WITNESS
HIS CHRISTMAS FEAST. THE PROTAGONIST ENCOUNTERS A JOVIAL AND JOYFUL PARTY, IN WHICH THEY STAY UNTIL IT
ENDS.
• AS THE DAY PASSES, THE AGE OF THE SPIRIT ADVANCES AND HEAGING. AS THE DAY DRAWS TO A CLOSE,
THE SPIRIT SHOWS SCROOGE TWOCHILDREN STARVING AND LIVING IN POVERTY UNDER THE ONLY
REFUGE OF THEIRCOAT. BUT THEN THAT SPIRIT SUDDENLY DISAPPEARS WHENA BLACK, HOODED FIGURE
APPROACHES THEM, AT WHICH POINT THE DREAMJUST.THE GHOST OF FUTURE CHRISTMAS APPROACHES
SCROOGE TOACCOMPANY HIM IN A SERIES OF MYSTERIOUS SCENES OF THE CHRISTMAS OF THE
YEARFOLLOWING. LITTLE TIM HAD DIED AS HIS FAMILY HAD NO MONEY FORKEEP IT WITH WHAT
SCROOGE PAID THEM. THEN THEY SEE SOME MENTALKING ABOUT THE DEATH OF A NAME THEY DON'T SAY
THE NAME OF. SOMEVAGABONDS BEGIN TO ARGUE OVER THE PROPERTIES OF THE DECEASED AND
SOMEBUSINESSMEN SAY THEY WILL ONLY GO TO THE FUNERAL IF THEY FEED. THENTHE TOMB OF THAT
MAN APPEARS, WHO IS NONE OTHER THAN SCROOGE HIMSELF. THEPROTAGONIST LOOKS FRIGHTENED AT
THE NAME ON THE TOMBSTONE AND REALIZESTHAT THE MAN THEY SPOKE OF WITH CONTEMPT WAS
HIMSELF. SO, SCROOGEHE IMPLORES THE SPIRIT FOR MERCY AND ASSURES HIM THAT HE WILL CHANGE
HIS ATTITUDE SO AS NOT TO BE THE ONE.THAT APPEARS ON THE TOMBSTONE. PROMISES NOT TO BE SO
GREEDY AND LITTLE CONSIDEREDWITH THOSE WHO HAVE THE LEAST.AT THAT MOMENT MR. SCROOGE
WAKES UP AND REALIZES THAT THESLEEP HAS ONLY REALLY LASTED ONE NIGHT. FROM THAT MOMENT IT
CHANGES OFATTITUDE WITH OTHERS DISCOVERING THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. SEND A TURKEY
FROMCHRISTMAS AT HIS EMPLOYEE'S HOUSE AND GOES TO EAT WITH HIS NEPHEW. WITH THEOVER THE
YEARS, THE PROTAGONIST PRESERVES THAT GOOD ATTITUDE, GIVES GIFTS TO THEMORE NEEDY, BECOMES
GENEROUS AND STOPS BEING SELFISH, EVEN REACHESTREAT LITTLE TIM AS HIS OWN SON.