Christmas Carol...

Today I'm going to talk about a book I really liked when I read it in second of ESO. The author of the book I'm going to talk is Charles Dickens (1812-1870) who who was born 200 years ago. The book is called A Christmas Carol.

The tale begins on a Christmas Eve in 1843.
The main character is called Scrooge and he hates Christmas and is a very bad person.

One day Marley warns Scrooge to change his ways lest he undergo the same miserable afterlife as himself. Scrooge is then visited by three additional ghosts – each in its turn, and each visit detailed in a separate stave – who accompany him to various scenes with the hope of achieving his transformation.

The first of the spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past, takes Scrooge to Christmas scenes of his boyhood and youth.
The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, takes Scrooge to several differing scenes, the most important is with the family feast of Scrooge's impoverished clerk Bob Cratchit, introducing his youngest son, Tiny Tim, who is seriously ill but cannot receive treatment.

The third spirit, the Ghost of Christmas, show to Scrooge the visions of the future if he does not learn and act upon what he has witnessed (including Tiny Tim's death). Scrooge's own neglected and untended grave is revealed. And then he decide that he has to change.
Finally Scrooge wake up on Christmas morning with joy and love in his heart, then he spends the day with his nephew's family after anonymously sending a prize turkey to the Cratchit home for Christmas dinner.

Scrooge has become a different man overnight and now treats people with kindness, generosity and compassion...