When his nephew Fred comes to wish him a merry Christmas and invite him to their Christmas party, Scrooge says Bah Humbug and says there is no reason to be merry on Christmas. “What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough” (5). Fred may not be rich in money but he is rich in many other things such as family, love, charity, and he knows how to balance work and play. The same goes for Bob Cratchit who struggles to put food on the table for his family. “and the clerk, with long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no great coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honor of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town, as hard as he could pelt, to play at blind man’s bluff” (12-13). When Scrooge returns home he sees the ghost of Marley in his door, but he doesn’t believe in ghosts. He then goes inside, where light is almost nonexistent and it is only Scrooge in his home. He is isolated in the dark when he is in his own home. While getting ready for bed Marley’s ghost appears to him while bound in chains of money, want, and
When his nephew Fred comes to wish him a merry Christmas and invite him to their Christmas party, Scrooge says Bah Humbug and says there is no reason to be merry on Christmas. “What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough” (5). Fred may not be rich in money but he is rich in many other things such as family, love, charity, and he knows how to balance work and play. The same goes for Bob Cratchit who struggles to put food on the table for his family. “and the clerk, with long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no great coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honor of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town, as hard as he could pelt, to play at blind man’s bluff” (12-13). When Scrooge returns home he sees the ghost of Marley in his door, but he doesn’t believe in ghosts. He then goes inside, where light is almost nonexistent and it is only Scrooge in his home. He is isolated in the dark when he is in his own home. While getting ready for bed Marley’s ghost appears to him while bound in chains of money, want, and