Sunday, January 20, 2008

A Christmas Carol

"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Pages 13-30.

Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character. He had a office, called "warehouse". It was the afternoon of Christmas Eve and old Scrooge sat busy at work in his office. It was a cold, foggy, bleak day, and Scrooge could hear poeple in the street outside celebrate the Christmas. Suddenly, a voice interrupted Scrooge in the midst of his work. "A Merry Christmas, Uncle!" came a cheerful voice. It was old man Scrooge's nephew. Then " Christmas a humbug" said Scrooge. His nephew wanted to invite him to have Christmas dinner with us tomorrow, but he rejected. After, there are two men wanted to invite him to go their party and donated some money. But Scrooge said " I do not consider Christmas merry and i have no desire to make, worthless people merry. Their is not my problem. Ihave my own business to attend to and i do not concern myself with other people's business. Now, good afternoon, gentlemen." Finally, he was being busy at work.

Opinion: He work the office with a partner. But his partner has died for seven years. Ithink maybe this reason causes him hate the Christmas day. Although many people want to invite him to have a party with them, he also reject, even his nephew. And he said " i don't concern myself with other people's business." He is a really selfish man. Ithink someone will teach him finally.

1 comment:

Wendy said...

Please use your own words in your summary, instead of using quotes from the book!
Why would someone hate Christmas just because their business partner died? Could there be any other reason?