Byebye Christmas Carol

  Final blog post before we lose our souls and sleep in WTYN. Might as well do something different than just summarize and give my thoughts on it. Let us compare the book with the play.

How we feel at the end of ACC and start WTYN

  In the play, everyone was screaming and running away from Scrooge like they were scared of him. Scrooge had a maid (I forgot her name) who helped him with some things around the house, like how at the end she helped Scrooge with giving money to everyone, In the scenes the GC Past showed him, it had included more scenes with Fezziwig's parties, Scrooge's old fellow apprentice Dick, his proposal to Belle, and more of his gradual growth to the avarice he had for like 40 years. The GC of Yet to Come showed Scrooge Tiny Tim's funeral and Fred offering Bob any help. At the end, Scrooge meets Fred and his wife on the streets on Christmas Day and asks to meet him later at his house for Christmas dinner, and then he goes to Bob's house and pulls the prank on Bob, delivers the food himself with some carolers, and meets the rest of the Cratchit family. Also we're not sure if the actor for Tiny Tim was a boy or girl.

  In the book, it was more like everyone disliked Scrooge than scared of him. He's completely alone at his house and at work other than for Bob. The GC of Past straight-up sprang the break-up scene on Scrooge and also included Belle's happy life with her family. The GC of Yet to Come showed Scrooge the Cratchit family still mourning Tiny Tim. At the end, Scrooge has the party with Fred on Christmas Day, and the day after is when Bob thought Scrooge was going crazy, and then it's only mentioned that he became a second father to Tiny Tim. We know for sure that Tiny Tim's a boy.

  The play had been great since for me, it helped visually some of the scenes in the book and I didn't have to struggle as much with Dicken's descriptiveness and big Victorian Era words. We've spent about a month reading the book, about the same amount of time on Of Mice and Men, but ACC felt a lot faster than it. It probably was shorter itself, but maybe also because I've also been dreading WTYN at the same time, while I had enjoyed OMAM without any stress and looked forward to TKAM. That's just me, I don't know about anyone else. Whatever the case, I hope everyone else enjoyed A Christmas Carol too and don't dread WTYN unlike me. If you do, same here, and I guess we can only prepare to die. Byebye y'all.