In Stave Two, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of Christmas Past. The ghost of Christmas Past looked like a child and an old man. It has a youthful face with no wrinkles, muscular arms, very delicate legs and feet, white hair, it is wearing a white tunic with a belt, and it is holding a branch of holly in its hand. The spirit has light shooting out of his head and that light is its life-force. The ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge to his past and is reminded of his childhood. The spirit is showing Scrooge his past to change him. The spirit is trying to use regret by him regretting mistakes that he made in the past that affects his present. Scrooge was very lonely as a child and was the only one left at boarding school over Christmas. Scrooge's father abused him, was negligent to him, and was hard on him. Scrooge did not have a good relationship with his family and his father didn't want him coming back home from boarding school. His only friends are characters from books. He has no friends and is not wanted by his family. The regret here is that he regrets not giving the boy caroler any money and turning him away and making him feel lonely. The spirit shows another scene of Christmas past and this scene is when Scrooge's sister, Fan, comes one Christmas to finally bring him home. She says that their father is nicer now and he said Scrooge can finally come home. Scrooge deeply loved Fan, but Fan died a young woman giving birth to Fred. Scrooge treats Fred horribly because of Fan's death. The regret in this would be that Scrooge regrets being mean to Fred and shunning him. Scrooge understands Fred has had it hard too and Scrooge needs to have a relationship with him.
Scrooge is a product of his past. He was neglected as a boy and was in poverty. He hates Christmas because he was left at boarding school during Christmas and had to spend time reading books. Scrooge is now learning that he should treat people nice because they have probably went through the same thing as Scrooge. Scrooge wants to be nice now and wants to change his ways. I feel bad for Scrooge when he was a kid because he was always neglected and his family didn't bring him back at Christmas. The only person who did not neglect Scrooge was Fan. Fan had to ask their dad to bring Scrooge back. This shows that Fan cared about Scrooge and Scrooge cared about her. They had a good relationship as children. Do you feel bad when Scrooge was neglected as a kid?
In the beginning of the blog post you had a nice description of what the spirit looked like. You also were right when you said that the spirit was using regret to make Scrooge change his ways and be a better person. Nice points on how he was lonely as a child and you gave good examples like how he was alone at boarding school and his only friends were book characters. Scrooge is a product of his past due to being neglected. I feel bad for Scrooge too, but he can change himself and his ways now, after the three spirits use three different emotions to change himself.
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