Category: Charles Dickens
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A Happy Ending
While growing up, every Christmas season I would watch one of the film adaptations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (I still watch and think that George C. Scott’s rendition is the best of the lot). The most frightening scene, regardless of the version, was always the Ghost of Christmas Future’s knurled finger pointing at […]
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Rocks of Redemption
The characters in Charles Dickens’ classic, “A Christmas Carol,” are about as well known to us as family. Ebenezer Scrooge. Bob Cratchit. Tiny Tim. All those ghosts. But two minor characters are often overlooked from Dickens’ tale. In one scene, the Ghost of Christmas Present pulls back his majestic robes to reveal “two children; wretched, […]
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The Ghosts of the Past
In Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale, the Ghost of Christmas Past came to Ebenezer Scrooge to make him face his own history. There Scrooge had to confront his deepest pains and foolishness. The old man would have never gone back on his own. The Ghost had to compel him backward. Being much the same, most […]