Overview: the whole story!!

That´s my last post! But I hope it will please =). I will give you a short summary about the whole story. Because you only heard diarys, character analysis or so since now.

In the story "A Christmas Carol" from Charles Dickens there is a man who´s name is Scrooge, the main character. He´s an old, very grumbling and lonely man. Fred, who is Scrooges nephew, invited him to a christmas celebration with the whole family. But Scrooge only said that christmas is humbug and disclaimed.

Then a spirit came at 1 o´clock into his house. It was the ghost of christmas past. At first Scrooge was frightened. But then the spirit showed him christmas times in Scrooge´s life when he was a child. Meanwhile he noticed that he was every christmas alone while other boys of his age were playing outside with snowballs.
After the ghost left, Scrooge woke up and it was again 1 o´clock. Also this night a spirit came. It was  the ghost of christmas present. The ghost of christmas present presented him  the christmas day of the family of Scrooge´s assistant. Also there appeared a third ghost! But if you want to know what he was doing read the book or enjoy the film !
If I would tell everything now I think you wouldn´t be interested in the story.

Though I can say Scrooge will realize that the life he lived and his attitude to christmas and his family will change.

I hope you liked my posts =)
and I hope you got great impressions about the story.

(235 words)

The style: easy or difficult?!

I have continued reading and thought about the style of writing the author uses. That´s what I will tell you about in this post.
At first I would like to mention that the book is a novel.
Charles Dickens, the author, uses very old and uncommon words. Surely because of the time when the book was written. It was made 1843 and the book I read is the complete and unabridged version.
Furthermore he has a very figurative language and describes lots of situations quite detailed with many adjectives and adverbs. Thus his sentences are sometimes fairly long. Those figurative descriptions make the story very interesting and you feel like you are nearly in the middle of the happening. This absorbs you to the book.
Overall it is rather hard to understand every sentence. All the time I am reading I´m sitting in front of "LEO" (online dictionary). But since I have been doing it for some days, it works much better now.
(163 words)

Why is Scrooge as he is?!

Questions I would like to have answered by Scrooge:
Scrooge,
1. what happened that you´re so crabby?
2. why do you hate christmas?
3. would you like to have friends or are you happy so lonely?
4. can you tell me more about you´re life when you were a child?
5. what were the characters of you´re parents?

I would like to know why he is so crabby, because the point of the story is, that he is everytime so cranky and as far as I have read it didn´t become clear to me. Also it is mentioned, as you know, he hates Christmas. So I wonder why and since when?!
I can´t understand why he is so lonely! Therefore I would like to know if he is happy with his life. Maybe his parents were also like him and didn´t have many social contacts. Thus he couldn´t have friends when he was young.
But possibly something awkward happened during his boyhood.
(164 words)

P.S. :
This story is also made as animated film (a bit overdone) by DISNEY`S. If you want to see it follow this link to the trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW5w90sDBrw

  

Will Scrooge alter??

As already described, Scrooge is a lonely skinflint, who doesn´t like Christmas.
I think that after the visit of the ghosts who show him some Christmas celebrations of his life and the life of his friends in the past, he will recognise how lonely he always has been at Christmas and how merry other people he knew have been. Also I believe that he will follow the invitation of his nephew, which he declined in the beginning of the story, and that he will celebrate this Christmas with his family and will experience a wonderful and happy, merry Christmas for the first time of his life. In addition maybe he will not be so cold-hearted and crabby any longer, for not to put people he meets into bad humor. Perhaps instead of being tight-fisted he will enjoy to spend his money to help others and make them happy.
We will see if it will come true as I think.
So wait for my next posts :)
(166 words)

A little dictionary

Words I didn´t know:

• tiptoe: It´s a part of the foot, you can use to be bigger than you are if you´re not standing on it. (my explanation)
• On the tips of the toes (from the dictionary)
• to embrace: to embrace is, if you put your arms around somebody.
• to enfold in the arms; to clasp and hold fondly
• to drag: to pull the sled behind you through the snow.
• to pull along the ground by main force
• eagerness: If you want something very much, you have the eagerness to do it.
• the noun for eager is eagerness. Eager means: Excited by an ardent desire to attain, obtain, or succeed in anything; keen, ardent, vehement, impatient.
• to accompany: If you go with somebody to the doctor, you accompany him.
• to go with, escort, attend as a companion; to live with.
• despairingly: You don´t understand the homework. You´re sitting despairingly in front of it.
• Adv. of despairing: Hopeless, desperate.
• avarice: It´s, if you can´t share something.
• an excessiv craving after wealth; greediness of gain.

(154 words)

My diary entry about the first ghost

Hey diary,
After Marley went out of the window, I locked the window, that he couldn´t come in and very quickly I fell asleep.
When I woke up again, amazingly it was dark. As every morning I waited for the bells to tell me what time it was, but they didn´t chime 6, 7, 8 or 9 times. No, they chimed 12 times. I really had slept a whole day. I remembered that, as Marley´s ghost had told me, at 1 o´clock the first ghost should visit. While waiting I became more and more frightened. When the bells rang one time the curtains of my bed moved and I could see somebody, who had white hair, strong arms, legs and hands. A light flashed up in my room and in fact it was the ghost. He took my hand and we went through the wall and stood upon an open country road. Directly I couldn´t see the city anymore and I recognised a familiar scenery. It was the sorrounding where I had grown up. All the streets, trees and people I knew. The boys were shouting to each other and you could hear merry music in the air.   
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A misterious incident

Today I continued to read the book. In the beginning many misterious phenomens happened, which Scrooge couldn´t allocate. But he wasn´t a man who´s frightened by echoes. He only fastened slowly the door. Then the light went off, but Scrooge didn´t switch the light on again. However to see if everything is allright, he looked through the whole house: under the bed, the couch, under the table etc..

A picture of Scrooge:








Characteristics of Scrooge:
- grumbly
- lonely
- hates celebrations
- isn´t sociable
- is a loner
- is missing his for 7 years disfunkt partner Marley
- isn´t frightened
- is very composed
- is sad that he has no friends
- he´s cold-hearted
- tight-fisted
I don´t like the character of Scrooge, because he´s so grumbly and tight-fisted and has no merriness.
The accommodation of his house:
- in his livingroom is a fireplace
- there are also a sofa and a table


The characters I know since now:
- Scrooge: main character; lives in a big house; has a nephew
- Nephew Fred: invites Scrooge for Christmas
- Marley: since 7 years dead; Scrooge´s old business partner
- Bob Cratchet: Scrooge´s assistant
(173 words)

Scrooge the grumbling loner

It´s again Christmastime !
If you want to read a nice Christmas story or if you need an adequate present, yet, you are right here.
This blog will be the perfect blog for you to read.

The book "A Christmas Carol" written by Charles Dickens is a wonderful and famous Christmas story, which was often staged. It´s proper for children.
Scrooge the main character of the book is a lonely, hard working old guy, who hates Christmas. His nephew, who loves Christmas, wants him to come to their family Christmas evening. But Scrooge only says "Bah! What a humbug! Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart."

The grumbling character of Scrooge reminds me of my grandfather, who also doesn´t like Christmas and hasn´t many contacts to other people.

So far I like this book, but for German speaking readers the language is sometimes quite difficult, bacause Charles Dickens used a lot of uncommon words.
(175 words)

The layout of the book

The man on the picture is Scrooge:

A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) - reading Journal