ACC Stave Three So Far

  Scrooge is back in his bed, and wakes up when the clock tolled One. He didn't want to be surprised when the next Ghost came, so he opened his curtains. Dickens goes on to describe how Scrooge was feeling. Fifteen minutes after the clock tolled One, the spirit still hadn't came, and Scrooge was really scared and nervous the whole time, and then he goes to the room next to the bedroom to see where the ghostly light is coming from, heard a strange voice tell him to come in, and he did. It was still his room, but there were changes like the walls and the ceiling were hung with holly, mistletoe, and ivy, and then there was turkeys, geese, game, poultry, joints of meat, and then a whole lot more things. Basically the room looked happy and bright, contrary to how dull, dreary, and dark it looks on a more daily basis. The Ghost of Christmas Present sat on the couch. He's giant, and he's holding a glowing torch, shaped like Plenty's horn/cornucopia. He's wearing a green robe, his feet are bare, he wore a holly wreath on his head, has long dark brown curly hair, and has sparkling eyes and cheery voice. Scrooge asks the Ghost if he had many brothers, and the Ghost replies more than eighteen hundred. Dickens goes on to describe how they were transported to the next scene, and what their surroundings looked like and what people were doing, which went on for about another 2 pages. Scrooge starts criticizing the Ghost about some stuff, the Ghost responds, and then they continue on to Bob's home. The Cratchits have like six kids: Martha, Belinda, Master Peter, another boy and girl, and Tiny Tim. Martha came home from the milliner's and they tried pranking Bob when he and Tiny Tim came home that Martha wasn't coming home for Christmas, but then Martha didn't like seeing her dad sad. They all pitched into getting ready for their Christmas dinner. Scrooge asks the Ghost if Tiny Tim will live, and the Ghost responds that he's going to die if everything in the present stays the same, and asks Scrooge why does he care? Better hurry up and decrease the population, and Scrooge is ashamed to hear his own words. Bob and his wife have an argument about Scrooge; Bob saying how Scrooge is the one providing for them, Mrs. Cratchit saying that Scrooge is an unfeeling man who'd rather they starve, and even the children are aware what a man Scrooge is. The family then starts talking about Master Peter and Martha. They're described as not a handsome family, but they're happy and love each other.
  The Ghost of Christmas Present kind of made me think of a Victorian-Era young Santa Claus wearing green because he's happy and cheerful and he made Scrooge's room look all bright and full of life and stuff, when usually it's sad and dark. I thought about the differences between the Ghost of Christmas Past and Present, how Christmas Past was all white and stuff and it just straight up came into Scrooge's room and scared him, whereas Christmas Present made the room look all bright and and happy, decorating the walls with Christmas plants like holly and stuff and basically he's kinda like how we think of Christmas today, hence he's the Ghost of Christmas Present, I guess. I thought it was sad how even the kids knew how little Scrooge pays Bob and how miserable he is and all. Just the mention of Scrooge's name made the family's mood go from Christmas-y and happy to dark for a full five minutes. I'm also kind of wondering what Scrooge and the Ghost were talking about earlier, when Scrooge was criticizing the Ghost about some stuff and the Ghost was responding, "I!", I'm just wondering what Scrooge was talking about. It was kind of funny in a sad, dark way how Scrooge doesn't want Tiny Tim to die, but the Ghost says if nothing in the present changes, he's going to die, and then Scrooge's own words come back to bite him.