Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly, cold-hearted man who cares only for money and sees the poor and those in need as burdens. He is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. These spirits show him how his selfish ways have isolated him and will lead to his lonely death if he does not change. Scrooge realizes the importance of human connection, charity, and keeping the Christmas spirit all year. He vows to honor Christmas in his heart by spreading generosity and goodwill to all people.

1. By Charles
Dickens
A
Christmas
Carol

2.  Scrooge was somebody who valued money
not family and love
 He treated people with disrespect and didn’t
care for others, especially the poor and
certainly wouldn’t give money to carol
singers at Christmas time

3. “OH! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone,
was Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping,
clutching, covetous old sinner! The cold within him
froze his old features, nipped his pointy nose,
shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes
red, his thin lips blue.”
EBENEZER
SCROOGE

4. • Bob Cratchit was
Scrooge’s clerk – a
good man
• Scrooge paid him a
very low wage
• His wage wasn’t
really enough to
properly feed his big
family
• Bob’s youngest child
Tiny Tim was a
cripple who was frail
and light

5. The Visits of the Ghosts
 Scrooge was
haunted by Jacob
Marley (pictured),
his deceased
business partner
 The ghost warned
him he would be
visited by another
three spirits
 The first was
the Ghost of
Christmas Past
 Scrooge was
reminded of
what he might
have had
 A family, good
times

6. THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS
PRESENT
• They visit the Cratchit
family to show that you
can be happy and poor
• Makes Scrooge feel guilty
for paying him poorly
• They meet Ignorance and
Want – a boy and girl
symbolising greed and
poverty in the cities
• People did not have
many kind words to say
about Scrooge

7. The Ghost of Christmas
Yet to Come
• Scrooge has died a lonely, miserable man and
buried in a dark, gloomy, graveyard
• Tiny Tim has also died
• Scrooge says: “I will honour Christmas in my
heart, try to keep it all the year. I will live in
the Past, Present and the Future. The spirits
of all three will strive within me.”

8. Conclusion
• Scrooge changes his ways!
• Tiny Tim lives!
• Everybody is amazed at
Scrooge’s transformation!
• Scrooge was true to his word –
He spread happiness not only at
Christmas but all year round!