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    <title>A Christmas Carol Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Although this is generally an opinion question, I think I can safely say...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Although this is generally an opinion question, I think I can safely say that the final ghost of A Christmas Carol (the Ghost of Christmas Future) definitely has the greatest impact on Scrooge.  The reason why I say this, not disagreeing with the first responder of course, is that there are significant grunts and complaints made by Scrooge after Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past and the Ghost of Christmas Present that prove the first three...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Even at Dickens' time, many people considered the book to be "gushy" and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Even at Dickens' time, many people considered the book to be "gushy" and overly sentimental. Others could not stand what they considered an exaggerated view of the sordid side of urban life in London (and elsewhere).
Dickens was very much in touch with his times. The impact of the industrial era and the radical changes which followed are  important leit motifs throughout many of his works.
The following references will give you more helpful...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:50:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The story of the Christmas Carol brought the poverty of the lower...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The story of the Christmas Carol brought the poverty of the lower classes in London to light.  The upper classes of the time period did not want to contemplate the living conditions of the very poor, especially the children.  They felt entitled and did not want to face the fact that human beings were suffering as a result of the various classes that existed during the time period. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:29:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why did some people not like the story "A Christmas Carol"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why did some people not like the story "A Christmas Carol"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:17:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It may be said that each ghost has a significant impact on Scrooge. The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It may be said that each ghost has a significant impact on Scrooge. The Ghost of Christmas Past makes him relive the errors and shame of his youth, and causes him to regret the way he treated his true love. The Ghost of Christmas Present shows him how his present actions cause pain to others, and fill him with pity for Tiny Tim and his family. But when the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come arrives, Scrooge says he fears him most of all. This...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:49:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Which ghost has the biggest impact on Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Which ghost has the biggest impact on Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and why? Show evidence to back up your point.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:45:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When the ghost showed Scrooge, a solitary child neglected by his...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When the ghost showed Scrooge, a solitary child neglected by his friends, he was reflecting upon himself as he sobbed. This shows that Scrooge has emotion therefore symbolising a change in his vice and vigorously described cape to his true inner self. This ghost had showed Scrooge himself in the past as a lonely young boy reading alone in the school, the feelings he had completely changed him and as signs in his cold heart began to thaw and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:40:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Ghost hopes to remind Scrooge of what it was like to be alone and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Ghost hopes to remind Scrooge of what it was like to be alone and "hopeless" at Christmastime.  While it is true that Scrooge is bitter and selfish because of the way in which he was treated as a boy, the Ghost tries to show the miser that rather than his past negatively influencing his actions, it should, instead, encourage him to help others to never have to experience the disheartening, cheerless holidays (or life) that he had as a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:25:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does the Ghost of Christmas Past try to achieve when Scrooge...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does the Ghost of Christmas Past try to achieve when Scrooge returns to the boarding school where he was left by himself at Christmas?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:46:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[If was the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come that had a direct impact to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If was the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come that had a direct impact to Scooge's life and actions. When he heard that he was going to die, he fell to his knees and begged for a second chance to change into a better self. His whole personality changes after the encounter with the spirits, he becomes more charitable. He told a boy to go to the poultry shop and bring the big prize-winning turkey to him, which he would send anonymously to the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:21:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["A Christmas Carol" remains one of the most popular narratives in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["A Christmas Carol" remains one of the most popular narratives in Western culture; it has been adapted to every form:  stage, radio, television, movies, etc.  Yet, the novel form remains the most poignant telling of all.  That the Victorian audiences were enthralled with Dickens's narrative is without question, for Mr. Dickens even charged admission to his readings; the admission went to Dickens's many charities.  Of course, the style of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:25:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Charles Dickens make use of his style of writing in "A...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Charles Dickens make use of his style of writing in "A Christmas Carol" ?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:58:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Ghost of Christmas Present is referring to the approximately 1800...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Ghost of Christmas Present is referring to the approximately 1800 Christmases that have come and gone since the birth of Christ, leading up to the point where Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol" in the mid-1800's.  Interestingly, it is the period of Victorian England that produced many of the cultural hallmarks of today's American Christmas celebration, including the Christmas tree, of course, which was borrowed from Germany.  Ironic...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:15:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the drama "A Christmas Carol,"the second ghost remarks that he has...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the drama "A Christmas Carol,"the second ghost remarks that he has "over eighteen hundred brothers."  What does he mean by that?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:23:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Christmas Carol, A - Novel Test]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Before departing from Scrooge, the second ghost, the ghost of Christmas...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Before departing from Scrooge, the second ghost, the ghost of Christmas Present opens his huge robe to expose two children, Ignorance and Want.  When Scrooge inquires if there is not someone who can care for them, the ghost counters against him with Scrooge's own words:  "Are there no workhouses?"
Then, in the midst of darkness, the Ghost of Christmas Future "slowly, gravely, silently approached."  The air through which the "Phantom"...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 8 Sep 2009 12:14:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[firstly, the ghost was gone with Scrooge in christmas past.and then his...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[firstly, the ghost was gone with Scrooge in christmas past.and then his childhood be seen by ghost then his sister came and wish him merry christmas and finally his girl friend would be seen with her fine children was seen by third ghost.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 8 Sep 2009 07:27:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain the arrival of the third ghost in A Christmas Carol.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain the arrival of the third ghost in A Christmas Carol.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 8 Sep 2009 07:18:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It is aplay held in london on a christmas eve.In this a character called...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is aplay held in london on a christmas eve.In this a character called Ebenezer Scrooge who changes his attitude.his business partner Jacob Marley and the three spirits made him merciful,benevolent,made him a Christmas a business for him.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:25:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Scrooge's countinghouse is located in the city of London, the setting...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Scrooge's countinghouse is located in the city of London, the setting of many of the narratives of Charles Dickens.  The mention of St Paul's Cathedral in "A Christmas Carol" attests to this fact as well as Scrooge's comment after he speaks with his nephew in which Scrooge ponders the response of the young man to his question of why he married:  "I love her."  Scrooge thinks this answer foolish since his clerk who only makes 15...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:58:36 PST</pubDate>
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