Allison Symes's Blog - Posts Tagged "scrooge"
A Christmas Carol - An Acrostic
A = A classic story which will never date or be irrelevant.
C = Charles Dickens’ tale will always have resonance.
H = His character of Ebenezer Scrooge has gone into the language - we talk about someone being a Scrooge.
R = Realising what the true meaning of Christmas is forms the heart of this story.
I = Imagining what it could take to make Scrooge the way he was at the start of the story shows empathy for a lost soul.
S = Scrooge changes - he has to, else there’s no story - what is fascinating here is finding out how it is done.
T = Time rules are suspended thanks to the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
M = Muppet Christmas Carol is, to my mind, the best adaptation of the story.
A = And I love the Marley and Marley sketch in this film - think it is brilliant.
S = Stories can show their classic status by seeing how many adaptations of them have been carried out - loads for this one.
C = Caring for others is a huge theme in this story and Scrooge comes to see how others see his miserliness.
A = Anguish in Scrooge’s past is shown to him - he has to face his mistakes, especially with Belle.
R = Reality is part of this story, funnily enough, as there are scary moments in the tale and Scrooge is made to face what he has become, perhaps the scariest thing of all.
O = Original and gripping - wow, what a story!
L = Love triumphs - Scrooge changes - he is no longer a lost soul.
C = Charles Dickens’ tale will always have resonance.
H = His character of Ebenezer Scrooge has gone into the language - we talk about someone being a Scrooge.
R = Realising what the true meaning of Christmas is forms the heart of this story.
I = Imagining what it could take to make Scrooge the way he was at the start of the story shows empathy for a lost soul.
S = Scrooge changes - he has to, else there’s no story - what is fascinating here is finding out how it is done.
T = Time rules are suspended thanks to the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
M = Muppet Christmas Carol is, to my mind, the best adaptation of the story.
A = And I love the Marley and Marley sketch in this film - think it is brilliant.
S = Stories can show their classic status by seeing how many adaptations of them have been carried out - loads for this one.
C = Caring for others is a huge theme in this story and Scrooge comes to see how others see his miserliness.
A = Anguish in Scrooge’s past is shown to him - he has to face his mistakes, especially with Belle.
R = Reality is part of this story, funnily enough, as there are scary moments in the tale and Scrooge is made to face what he has become, perhaps the scariest thing of all.
O = Original and gripping - wow, what a story!
L = Love triumphs - Scrooge changes - he is no longer a lost soul.
