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A Christmas Carol
Grade 6 Review
I have read a lot of great classics, but one of my favorites and one of the best
classics of all time is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol means exactly what the title says. It's about a mean old man named
Mr. Scrooge. Scrooge hates Christmas, and he makes every one's holiday life miserable
every chance he gets. He even made his clerk work on Christmas Eve. Scrooge does not
contribute to charities or any thing else like that. He never gives, he only pays. In
short, he is a mean old grouch.
Of course, this is all before he receives a visit from his seven year old dead partner
Jacob Marled. Marled warns him that if he keeps doing life the way he is then when his
life is done a nightmare will wait for him. The nightmare is that Scrooge will have to
live in chains and be doomed to wander the world in all of his after life.
Meet the three ghosts of the past, present, and future as they take Scrooge on journeys
that show him how wrong he was about Christmas. However, the question remains. After all
the three ghosts have shown will Scrooge reform and lead a better life or will he continue
on his own dark path of misery and cruelty. It is up for him to decide.
