“Please do understand that I am plenty obliged for your concern, but, really, kind spirit, it would have done all the better for my welfare to have been left alone altogether, to have slept peacefully through this night.” (Dickens, 11) Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past and they witness Scrooge’s happy and joyful Christmas memories, but they also witness his hard and often cruel past Christmases. After the Ghost of Christmas Past departs, leaving Scrooge alone, the ghost of Christmas Present visits Scrooge. Scrooge is given a look at the happiness and poverty of many families who do not have much of anything. The Ghost of Christmas Future, who stays completely silent at all times takes Scrooge to Christmases in the future. Scrooge witnesses the effect Tiny Tim’s death had on Bob Cratchit’s family. Ebenezer Scrooge discerns that no one will mourn his own …show more content…
The conflict is that Scrooge is an extremely grumpy and tightfisted old man which is obvious by his countenance. The rising action is when Scrooge visits life altering memories from his past and circumstances of many poor people presently. The climax is when Scrooge visits the future and he sees his that no one mourns his death and he witnesses the death of Bob Cratchit’s crippled son, Tiny Tim and sees how loved and remembered the poor child will be. Mr. Scrooge realizes that he can still become a giving and loving person and help many people’s lives for the better, including Bob Cratchit’s poverty stricken family. The resolution is when Ebenezer Scrooge acts upon his realization and becomes like a second father to Tiny Tim and the other Cratchit children. (Video