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leonie
leonie
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High School - 9th Grade

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?

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Posted by leonie on Monday October 12, 2009 at 1:46 AM and tagged with a christmas carol, scrooge.

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  1. scarletpimpernel Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

    eNotes Editor

    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 boy.

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    http://www.enotes.com/christmas-carol/characters
    http://www.enotes.com/christmas/carol/summary

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    Posted by scarletpimpernel on Monday October 12, 2009 at 12:25 PM

  2. jj91482242
    jj91482242 Student
    High School - 11th Grade

    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 his inner being began to be revealed.

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    Posted by jj91482242 on Tuesday October 13, 2009 at 2:40 PM