Author’s Profile:
Charles Dickens, is an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian
era. Throughout his career, Dickens published a total of 15 novels. His many volumes
include such works as A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great
Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend. His origins were middle class but soon feel to the
bottom because of his father.
Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity during his lifetime than had any previous author. In
1833 he began contributing stories and descriptive essays to magazines and newspapers
and continued his literary career with much fame. Charles Dickens’ legacy was using his
novels and other works to reveal a world of poverty and unimaginable struggle. Charles
Dickens has changed the world by making them see that people struggling to live are
people just like them, and that anyone can make a difference by speaking out against
injustice.
Summary
The entire story of the Christmas Carol is taken place in the City of London, in 1843,
and on the days of Christmas Eve, Christmas day, and the morning after Christmas
Scene 1
 The story starts by the ghost of Jacob Marley standing with Ebenezer Scrooge in
Scrooge's office.
 He introduces himself and explains how he knows Scrooge. He also explains that
Scrooge as selfish, cold hearted, rude man who is so (as Marley stated) tight-fisted he
wouldn’t lend a penny to anyone.
 Also, it shows that even Scrooge's closest friends believe he acts this way and think he
is a horrible person.
Scene 2
 The next scene starts with Bob Cratchit (Scrooge's clerk) and Scrooge working in
Scrooge's office.
 Cratchit is trying to warm himself with a tiny piece of coal that is barely lighting a flame.
 He only has this little flame because Scrooge always refuses to pay Cratchit more
money.
 Later on Scrooge's nephew, Fred, drops by to wish his uncle a Merry Christmas.
 He also invites Scrooge to dine with himself and his family on Christmas day. Scrooge
not only refuses his nephew's offer but answers him with a mean spirited answer of
"Bah! Humbug!."