Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Stave Three So Far

In stave three we read that Scrooge wakes up in the middle of the night, and the clock has struck one in the morning, Scrooge was waiting for a spirit or figure to appear in front of his face. Scrooge's old scared face then waited for five to ten minutes, waiting for a figure to appear right in front of him, nothing came. Scrooge then goes to another room, and hears a voice to tell him to go inside the room, so did the command, when Scrooge went in, the room is described, that the walls and ceilings were hung. The room was looking really bright, and a happy place that people on the day of Christmas would have. The ghost of Christmas present has appeared, and it then is sitting on the couch, the ghost of Christmas present was wearing a green robe, and its feet was bare, and he had a wreath on top of his head. The ghost had curly brown hair, Scrooge ask the ghost if it had a lot of brothers, and it says that it has plenty of brothers, and by that he means that he has more that eighteen hundred of brothers. Scrooge starts to things to the ghost about some things, in the next scene Scrooge and the ghost go to Bob Cratchit's home. Bob Cratchit is in poverty, and has children, even though they are in poverty, they still tend to be happy together. In the scene, Tin Tim gets in the door, and tells everyone that Martha would not be joining them for Christmas, this is because Martha does not like to see Bob sad because he is in poverty. Scrooge then asks the ghost if Tiny Tin will die, the ghost says back that he will die if everything in the present is the same. In the same scene, Bob Cratchit then makes a toast to Scrooge, for he to provide them, Bob's wife disagrees with him because Scrooge is a man with no feelings, to help the people that are in poverty.

I think that the ghost of Christmas present, will convince Scrooge more, that he will change himself, and save himself from going you know where. At first I thought that the ghost of Christmas present was going to show Scrooge something worse than than, when the ghost of Christmas past had shown Scrooge his past, and how he had no friends. In my opinion, I think that all of the ghost so far, are really trying to make Scrooge change, in his attitude towards the others, and how he was treating them really bad. Scrooge will for sure think about this, and how Bob needs money to help his son Tiny Tim, so he could live . I also like how the ghost of Christmas present was dressed up, and how he was sitting on the couch, when he had appeared to Scrooge.

2 comments:

  1. I agree with your moral statement here, Alex. I think that the Ghost of Christmas Present is trying to make Scrooge see how scarred his personal image and ego is. Scrooge has a massive ego of money and wealth, and I think the spirit attacking that will make him change for a longer time than regret, because Scrooge doesn't want anything he owns, emotionally or materially, to be stained by anything negative about him as a person, or as a businessman with no remorse whatsoever.

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  2. You did a good job on your blog post here and made some good points. You also did a good job summarizing what happened in what we read. I also thought that the ghost was going to show Scrooge something worse than what he had already seen. I also think that Scrooge will think about how much he pays Bob and will help pay for Tiny Tim. However I do not understant how the ghost appeared to Scrooge.

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