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yashira17
yashira17
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High School - 12th Grade

When Fan comes to pick Scrooge up, we learn a reason why Scrooge may have turned out the way he did. What is this reason?

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Posted by yashira17 on Thursday March 5, 2009 at 4:46 PM and tagged with a christmas carol, christmas carol.

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  1. amethystrose Teacher
    High School - 9th Grade

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    The Ghost of Christmas Past has taken Scrooge back into his childhood so that he might see where his loathing of Christmas originated.  Scrooge's father was apparently a mean man, and young Ebeneezer resented being sent away to a boarding school.  When his sister, Fan, arrives to bring him home for Christmas, she tells him that their father "is much kinder now".  This suggests that there might have been some abusive tendencies on the part of Scrooge's father.

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

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    Posted by amethystrose on Friday March 6, 2009 at 11:26 AM