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A carol to live for!
Mar 02, 2006 04:04 PM 4465 Views
(Updated Mar 02, 2006 04:04 PM)

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A CAROL TO REMEMBER


When I first heard about this story, what came to my mind were the series of Carol songs which I used to sing when I was a kid. But reading this story was a great experience for me, and I have managed to read this one a number of times again on the same day itself. This is one classic, beautiful story of life, which you can never manage to miss at any cost, it shows the skills of Charles Dickens to make a simple idea look even more interesting.


Christmas Carol happens to be one of the best works of Charles Dickens, and certainly the best Christmas story (even if it doesn't concentrate much on Christmas, New Year or any other celebrations). This one is a powerful and interesting story of a Christmas night, which changes the life one man for ever.


The way in which this story is told and how it progresses, is quite impressive. The story shows how one incident can make permanent change in an evil heart, and thus a good choice for making a movie, and thankfully there are already a few, based on this story.


A CHRISTMAS DAY


Our central character, a rich business man Ebenezer Scrooge (reminds me of the Uncle Scrooge in the old Disney cartoons) is not only a miser, but also a hard hearted person. Even after being rich, he lives life as if he it was his fate to be alive in this world. He always thought about only one thing, money, and losing money was some thing that he just can't even think about. May be ''Merry Christmas'' is the one thing he just can't dare to hear.


Scrooge not only hates Christmas and finds it a way for people to take holidays and waste time, but he also hates to donate for any good cause and finds death a good option to decrease the increasing world population. As expected no one likes him, or may be most of the people in the town can't stand his face, because almost every one had atleast one experience from this man.


TIME TO CONFESS?


After blaming every one, as he returns home, he is visited by a ghost of his business partner, Jacob Marley, bound in chains, in a very bad shape. The ghost tells him how is made to suffer due to all the bad things he had done before death. Scrooge wants to escape from this eternal punishment, and the ghosts tells him to listen to the three ghosts who will visit the miser one after another, late in the night.


Thinking about the unexpected event, Scrooge gets asleep before being greeted by the first of the three spirits. There happens to be three spirits of past, present and future, providing him with various visions, and they happens to be those kind of visions which can bring changes to any human heart.


The story is about these incidents which he had to see, and understand, and the immediate changes that comes upon him as a result. The spirit of the future even takes the matter longer, as he shows the situation after his death. These incidents are depicted in a dramatic way through out the story, and there is no way that some one fails to enjoy it.


A BELIEVABLE STORY


Charles Dickens has done a fantastic job in depicting the importance of mutual respect and love in human life. As well as showing wealth as the main reason for human degradation as well as greed, he has also managed to portray the feeling of being good in an effective manner.


He has also managed to link all the characters in the story in such a way that Scrooge will be the major character, and his conversation with the ghosts is what the story is about, but the others also have their own importance, a real treat to the readers.


The author have given a symbolic meaning to Christmas as well as the different characters in the story. The main character of the story, Scrooge had plenty of reasons to be as bad and impolite as he used to be, but what matters the most is his welcome change to become a good, respected human being, with lots of love and care for his fellow beings. Hope you all read this attractive story.....


THANKS FOR READING THE REVIEW......KEEP COMMENTING.....


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