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    <title>A Christmas Carol Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the beginning of this famous novel, Scrooge, appropriately named, is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the beginning of this famous novel, Scrooge, appropriately named, is suffering from a bad case of nastiness, and bitterness due to the coming of the Holiday, Christmas. He exhumes negativity to those around him and insists that this is a meaningless holiday.  Many people can relate to these stresses as their life seems dull and meaningless thinking their actions and words do not mean anything to anybody.  Scrooge symbolizes many...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:41:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does Scrooge symbolize in the beginning of A Christmas Carol?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does Scrooge symbolize in the beginning of A Christmas Carol?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:32:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the point of going to the lighthouse to the shop? What is the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the point of going to the lighthouse to the shop? What is the great surprise to Scrooge in the next paragraph?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:12:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[As Scrooge of "A Christmas Carol" waits for the toll of the bell as...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As Scrooge of "A Christmas Carol" waits for the toll of the bell as Marley's ghost has instructed him, he sees a

strange figure--like a child:  yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatureal medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child's proportions.

It is an ephemeral image, with white hair as though it is old, yet there are no wrinkles in its face and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:06:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the stangest thing about the way the spirit looks?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the stangest thing about the way the spirit looks?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:24:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Do you mean Scrooge?
Lucky old Bob Cratchit arrives for work the day...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Do you mean Scrooge?
Lucky old Bob Cratchit arrives for work the day after Christmas to find a different Scrooge! At first, because he is precisely eighteen minutes late, Scrooge doesn't seem to have changed and appears all ready to give poor Bob a torrent of verbal abuse. Then, he seems to remember himself and his new ways and starts to smile. He prepares a bowl of lovely warm punch for them both and says they will sit down together for a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:40:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge's attitude towards the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge's attitude towards the first spirit is one of fear. It's important to remember that the first apparition Scrooge sees is Not a spirit! That first vision is a ghost - quite a different thing - he represents the ghost of Scrooge's old business partner talking to the old miser from the grave. He has come to warn Scrooge about his cheap penny-pinching ways and cold cheerless selfish attitude towards...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:29:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is Scrooge's initial attitude toward this spirit.
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        <description><![CDATA[What is Scrooge's initial attitude toward this spirit.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:15:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How did Scrooge start the day for Bob Cratchit after Christmas?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How did Scrooge start the day for Bob Cratchit after Christmas?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:46:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[1. he thinks he is a  positive retard and idieon so that he will get...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[1. he thinks he is a  positive retard and idieon so that he will get alot of his uncles money....2. it gets wayyyyy worse!....he gets so mad and murders someone at the party...freds sister to  be exzachet]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:11:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Although Scrooge doesn't get along with anybody around him, the main...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Although Scrooge doesn't get along with anybody around him, the main conflict he faces is within himself. The spirit of his old business partner Marley first warns him to change his ways; then come the different "visitations" of the Christmas spirits of the past, present and future to "finish the job."  Scrooge is forced to face his failures in human relationships in both the present and the past, as he relives moment of loss in his youth and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:22:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the conflict in A Christmas Carol?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the conflict in A Christmas Carol?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:43:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The climax of any piece of literture is the highest point of interest...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The climax of any piece of literture is the highest point of interest (not action) wherein the reader understands how the story will resolve (and to what extent the beginning balance is either regained or destroyed.)
In order to determine the climax, then, for A Christmas Carol, the reader must define the main, dominating idea or theme of the work. What is Dickens' message? The notes linked below offer three thematic ideas that work together...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:51:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the climax in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol ?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the climax in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol ?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 13:51:36 PST</pubDate>
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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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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:01:46 PST</pubDate>
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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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