The ghost of Christmas past is trying to use the emotion of regret to make Scrooge realize what he needs to change in his life. The ghost of Christmas past takes Scrooge back to when he was a boy at boarding school. Scrooge remembers how lonley his childhood was and how neglected he was. This make Scrooge reflect on his life now and it makes him regret not giving the caroler boy anything. The next scene that the spirit takes scrooge to is still at the boardig scholl, but later in his life. In this memory, his sister Fan appears at his school and tells him that father has agreed to let him come back home. Fan says that he is a much better person. We can assume that Scrooge's father was physically abusive to him, and Scrooge was neglected by his family. From seeing Fan, he regrets blabing Fred, his nephew and only remaining family for the death of his sister. Scrroge feels bad for treating Fred so badly for all these years and he realizes that he wants or needs to have a relationship with Fred.
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Scrooge's Past Life
We are currently just about half way through stave two. So far, Scrooge has been visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley, Scrooge's late buissiness partner. Marley is wearing a chain that reapresents his sins. Marley tells Scrooge that his chain was the same length seven years ago, but he has since labored on it and it is much longer. Marley tells Scrooge that he still has a chance to save himself if he changes his life and becomes a better person. Scrooge was told that he will be visited by three spirits, the ghost of Chirstmas past, the ghost of Christmas present, and the ghost of Christmas future. Each spirit will try to make Scrooge realize that he has to change his life.
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Overall, good job on your post. I really enjoyed reading it, and you make many good points in your post such as when the Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge to certain memories in his past to make him feel regret for his actions now. It is also a good point that you wrote about that it is assumed that Scrooge's father was physically abusive to him, and that overall, Scrooge was neglected by his family since Fan basically had to beg their father to let him come back home for Christmas. After all of the memories that the Ghost of Christmas Past has brought him to so far, it makes Scrooge feel a lot of regret which you bring out well in this post.
ReplyDeleteGreat job on your blog post, you were very detailed about all four ghost and even told us the names of them. I also really liked that you explained that the ghost from christmas past uses the emotion regret to help change scrooge. They can't just use regret, because it's only an emotion that is short termed and the mistakes would still be repeated again. Including, with mentioning about Scrooge's sister, Fan. Fan died giving birth to Fred, Scrooge's nephew. Therefore, Scrooge blames Fred for causing the death of his sister. Overall, Good job on your blog post.
ReplyDeleteGood job on this blog post Sami, I think that it was detailed, and very interested. I like how you worded when the ghost of Christmas past, and takes Scrooge to his past Christmas when he was a child. I think that Scrooge did feel guilty and felt regret that he did not give any money to the boy Christmas Caroler and realizes that he was like that when he was a child. I do agree with you that Scrooge has been really mean to Fred all those years, and want to have a relationship with him. Overall good job on you blog post, I think that it had a lot of good detail in it.
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