How Does Christmas Carol Scrooge Affect The Future

After the Ghosts of Past, Present and Future visited, it is evident that their teachings educated Scrooge, like a hammer recreating a crocked sword on an anvil. The novel described the ghosts thoroughly, using words to visualize and help us fantasize what the spirits are and how they change Scrooge. For example The Ghost of Past took advantage of Scrooge's remorse, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come used Scrooge's fear. And it is this process that helped us fully understand why did Scrooge become a helpful angel after his visits. For example during the last ghost's visit, the women and men's thievery disgusted Scrooge and he worried about who the rich man was, and the ghost wasn't depicted as a evil fellow but as a helpful teacher.

Marley tells scrooge that three other ghosts are going to come to Scrooge home, and leaves after telling Scrooge to change his ways before it's hurts him. Scrooge thinks nothing of this and thinks it a illness, but as Marley said, he would get visited from one of the Ghost of Christmas that is named Past. This ghost takes scrooge down memory lane of his childhood memories and Scrooge sadly begins sob when he think about his past as a boy. The past also features events from Scrooge's young adulthood, when he transforms into the rude miser that he ends up being after rejecting his wife and not learning the lessons of kindness taught by Fezziwig, the man he was apprenticed to.

The ghost takes Scrooge to different Christmas dinner parties, festivals and other

The ghost of Christmas future takes him to his grave and he is shocked to see what has been written on his gravestone, he cries out to the spirit to “‘tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone’” (Dickens 103). Scrooge wants to change as a person. He realizes that in order to be happy, he must accept others into his life. Finally, Scrooge, a merry man, lives a life of joy “and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well if any man alive possessed the knowledge” (Dickens 113).

Scrooge is told by the spirit of his dead business partner, Jacob Marley, that his time is running out and he needs to change. Ebenezer Scrooge

Said scrooge as you see the ghost of christmas future is showing scrooge the businessmen talking about a death and scrooge is confused because he still thinks that those men are talking about his old co-worker, but soon he will realize he was wrong and he will be

Scrooge is visited by his old but dead partner and scrooge is told that he will be visited by three ghost. Scrooge thinks it is a lie but Marly becomes furious and screams at him.(Video 1984) He is than left alone in fear waiting for the ghosts to come. He is visited by the the ghost of christmas past and is shown his hurtful past Where he is all alone as a schoolboy. (Video 1984)

After this, The Ghost of Christmas Present shows the mean old man what people who are part of his life are doing on Christmas Eve. Lastly, The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come leads Scrooge to a future Christmas. All these spirits had the power to change Scrooge by using memory, compassion,

To finish it off the Ghost of Christmas Future silently shows Scrooge his own grave, and has him interpret his death. The ghost is described as a non-speaking grim reaper, and symbolically represents that Scrooge’s death will be silent, and he will not be able to explain his choices to others. They will just be forced to make their own

”Scrooge changes from these traits through his experience with the ghost of the past,present,and future. When the ghost of Christmas past visits Scrooge,it shows that on pg.31 and pg.32,where talking about his past and how he should change the way he acts and saying

Now that Scrooge has seen the future and the consequences of his life. Scrooge realizes that only kindness and goodness will pay off at the end of the road. Scrooge doesn’t completely change until this moment where he is shown how important it is to keep the Christmas Spirit in your heart. The Ghost of Christmas Future shows

Then told him “I told you these were shadows of things that have been, they are what they are. ”(pg.257) meaning that everything the ghost just showed him was all in his past. After scrooge view how awful he mad his life just caring about how much money he has, he came back to reality and changed his mood and thoughts. He gave his

The ghost of Christmas future shows Scrooge what happens after his possible death, and 3 people are seen selling his items that he needed to live and rest. One of the 3 people say ‘he died with no one by his side’ which leads to the fact that Scrooge loves nobody but his coin. The ghost lets Scrooge also see that Tiny Tim has died, significantly telling Scrooge that he has to change or he will die and so will Tiny Tim. However, Scrooge decides to change his ways once and for all, and he finally pledges to be a kind man to others, with no potential signs of threat or vile manners. The whole point of the spirit’s visit was to use the final blow on Scrooge’s Arctic organs and give him a few more scenarios of what happens in the possible future.

All this makes for an awfully tragic tale, but everyone knows how this story ends. After Scrooge is visited by three ghosts his point of view is changed and he becomes a better man. He starts to look for the good in things, rather than the bad. In this story we see an example that it's never too late to change for the better.

Scrooge has started to really understand what he has done wrong in his life and how selfish and mean he really is . The ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge his future and how the people don’t care that Scrooge dies “If there is any person in the town, who feels emotion caused by this man’s death,” said Scrooge quite agonised, “show that person to me, Spirit, I beseech you” ( Dickens 11 ). Scrooge is seeing how people treat him when he is dead but Scrooge has no clue they are talking about him. Scrooge is showed the future but Scrooge thinks he has already changed completely because he has no idea that the person the men are talking about is him. Scrooge is changing fast but he has not seen the shadows that have not happened but will happen soon "You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us," Scrooge pursued.