Rating: 4/5
Ebenezer Scrooge was really a very wicked man. He was rude, he was mean, and just above all, he hated everybody, even his jolly nephew. He had only liked anyone since his partner, Jacob Marley, had died, and as you could guess, he was the man that Mr. Scrooge had really liked. But the two had still been an evil pair, however close, and the grumpy old man was scared when one night, Marley visits him, with bad news.
Marley, of course, was dead, but no, he was a ghost now, and as alive and well as old Scrooge was. He carried long, heavy chains with him, and he told Scrooge that these had been linked together invisibly during his lifetime with all the bad deeds he had done, and that now, even though he was dead, he had to carry them, and he felt them. He told Scrooge that three ghosts would visit him at one o’clock every morning until Christmas: The Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Christmas Yet to Come.
The first two ghosts took him on adventures to see the things he was missing out on, and also the things he had done wrong and was sure to feel guilty about. But the last ghost, the scariest of all, showed him a grave, which had, engraved on the stone, ‘Ebenezer Scrooge’. Of course, Scrooge knew that he would die at some point, and no doubt soon, but the worst was that nobody cared, nor cried, nor pitied him.
But what will happen to the old man when the ghosts have gone? Had they actually taught him his lesson, and – well, had he missed Christmas?