How Scrooge Saved Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is about a crotchety, stingy old man named Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited by spirits trying to save him from his “humbug” attitude of Christmas. His bitterness is evident ranging from the way he treats his underpaid clerk, Bob Cratchit, to his dismissal of the poor. The spirits succeed in changing this insensitive miser to a generous and thoughtful person who knows “how to keep Christmas well.” In real life, it was the story of Scrooge w...