Essay About Ebenezer Scrooge And Main Characters

A Christmas Carol
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By: Charles Dickens
The four main characters in the book are Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob
Cratchit, and Ebenezer Scrooges nephew, Fred.
This story takes place in London, England. The time is winter December 1843
and it starts the day before Christmas, also known as Christmas Eve.
Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character of the story, All 3 ghosts visit
him. Through him, the lesson of the story is to be learned. In the book, he
is made out to be Anti-Christmas, some are feeling pity for him, other
hostility.
“External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could
warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than
he.Nobody ever stopped in the street to say, with gladsome looks, My dear
Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?. No beggars implored
him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was oclock, no man
or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a
place, of Scrooge.”
Next there is Tiny Tim, he has to use a crutch to walk and he is very
small. Despite his disability, he always keeps the spirit up and tries to
maintain it in all his brothers, sisters, and parents, even though they are
poor.
” He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him because he was
a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember, upon Christmas
Day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.” This quote just shows
how thoughtful he is, and how much he cares for others.
Tiny Tims father Bob is an employee of Scrooge and he is the only one in
the Cratchit family that is thankful to Scrooge, because of the job and the
pay that he has given him to support his family and keep food in their
stomachs.
The last but not least major character is Scrooges nephew, Fred. He seems
to be the only person who comes to converse with Scrooge and offer him
anything. In this case, Fred offered him an invitation to his house for
Christmas dinner. Fred is convinced at the beginning of the story that
Scrooge doesnt really mean “Bah!.Humbug!” No matter how many times he says
“He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this
nephew of Scrooges, that he was all in a glow; his face ruddy and
handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.”
As I said before, Fred is one of the few that feels pity for Scrooge.
The book starts off talking about Jacob Marley, Scrooges former business
partner. It basically says that he “was dead as a door-nail”
In the beginning of the book two men came in to Scrooges office and asked
for a donation but he sent them away quickly. At this point in the book,
Scrooge is not made out to be a nice, caring, giving man.
When Scrooge goes home, he is confronted by the ghost of Marley who tells
him that he will be haunted by three spirits, the three following days,
each at one oclock.
The first spirit that comes is the Ghost of Christmas Past. This spirit
takes Scrooge back to his childhood where he sees a very lonely boy caught
in his books without a friend.
Then they skip ahead in time and see when Scrooge was an student to Mr.
Fizziwig. This episode shows the Christmas party that Old Fizziwig