Compare And Contrast The Christmas Carol

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Have you ever listened to “It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” and wondered why it says “scary ghost stories”? That’s because of Charles Dickens book The Christmas Carol, a book about Christmas. People who have read the book probably watched a version of it on their tv. If you have watched the movie or read the book you would know that they are both meant to scare you. The book and the movie while having there comparisons also have a lot of differences.
In the movie and the book there are a lot of comparisons like for one there are three ghost not counting marly. Charles Dickens said, “you will be haunted, resumed the ghost by three spirits”. I think the director of the movie kept this in the movie because it was telling Scrooge that he was going to be visited by three ghost. Marly said this when he was sitting in the seat talking to scrooge.
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Charles Dickens said, “ Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, EBENEZER SCROOGE”. I think the director kept this part in the movie because it is a big part in him changing his ways to see that he will die in the future.it was a cold day with a grown over stone in the ground reading his name.
In the movie and the book there are a lot of differences like for one the ghost of christmas present doesn't take him to the boat or the quarry. Charles Dickens said,”what place is this’ said Scrooge ‘a place where miners live, who labor in the bowels of the earth,’ returned the spirit” and “and every man on board, walking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for one another on that day of year”. Instead the movie just took him to Bob cratchit and his nephews houses. I think the director did this because those were the two main ones that changed