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A birds christmas is a classic example of not judging a book by its cover. When you read the title a Birds Christmas you probably think ok a bird as in chirp shirp well you're wrong. A birds X-mas Carol is about a family (the birds) and their new…

Christmas Time Christmas time is the time for giving and sharing, but for me its all about fun. I have so much fun during this time of the year. I like to stay with my family as much as I can, because family comes first. For my friends as well, we…

It is Christmas Eve, and Scrooge is overseeing the business. He is accompanied by his employer, Bob Cratchit, who is in charge of writing out records and accounts. Scrooge then receives several visitors. One of these visitor’s is Scrooge’s nephew, Fred…

found a way to restore his sagging self confidence. Instead of beginning another novel, he tried his hand at a short fable also dealing like Martin Chuzzlewit, with the theme of selfishness. It was the first and best of his Christmas books, A Christmas Carol…

A Family Christmas I was very nervous because my tiny townhouse was full of hungry people, people with very different personalities, backgrounds and families who were now brought together as one family, my family. They were all counting on me…

Can you be both? “Bah! Humbug!” “God bless us everyone!” These phrases draw both positive and negative images to mind. The two lines are famous phrases from Dickens’ Christmas Carol. The first line belongs to Ebenezer Scrooge, and the second line…

to tell fortune. I was so afraid to visit her house until one day… It was Christmas Eve, my mother asked me to bring a gift to the fortuneteller next door. At first I did not want to go but somehow I knocked on her door with a small wrapped gift…

An audience member's gleeful first-hand account of Charles Dickens's public reading of "A Christmas Carol" unwittingly exposes an often overlooked contradiction in the story's climax: "Finally, there is Scrooge, no longer a miser, but a human being…

, Dickens's vision of A Christmas Carol came to him. (1) In the original preface to this little book, he stated his objectives best: "I have endeavored in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour…

to the world around him. In the preface of the book "A Christmas Carol", Charles Dickens writes, "I have endeavored in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves...each other...the season…