After both viewing the play at the North Shore Music Theater and finishing up Act 2, we see a huge character change in Scrooge. Describe his character change. Do you believe that people can change completely, as Scrooge does? Explain your response and feel free to include any examples from your life.
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Scrooge has changed very much from act 1 to act 2.In act 1 he was a stingy,mean,cruel person.When act 2 happened,he started to tremendously change.From the ghost of Christmas present to the ghost of Christmas future,his personality completely changed from being a mean jerk,to being a kind,gentle,Christmas loving person.One of my good friends went from being a nice person to being a jerk.That made me devastated and I never saw him again.In conclusion,Scrooge changed from act 1 to act 2 by changing from a mean cruel person to a gentle person who very much appreciated Christmas.
ReplyDeleteOnce the play play was over, and we finished reading, there was a huge change in scrooge. He finally realized that you have one life and why waist it by being so grumpy and negative all the time. Its kinda sad that it took three ghosts to get him to realize it thought. I 100% believe that people can change, because I've seen it happen. None of us are the same person we were lats year. We meet new people, do new things, and it can all have an influence on you. But its one thing to change a bit and a complete other to become an unrecognizable person. I feel like for that to happen you would have had to go through something really traumatic, because people don't just change for no reason. take scrooge for example, he had three ghosts visit him in the middle of the night and now he is a completely different person. so to wrap things up, yes it is very possible for someone to change.
ReplyDeleteScrooge has changed so much, from the beginning to the end of the book. He started of being very rude, morose, upsetting, and sometimes scary. Though near the end of the book he changed and people started to like him more. He was very giving and not selfish at all. I believe that people can change just like scrooge did. I have experienced it myself. For example, sometimes people who have to go to jail for doing a crime, come out as a totally different person. They are usually kinder to the people around them. For some people it is hard to change completely, it maters who you are and if your persistent enough.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree that people can change as much as Scrooge did. In the beginning of the book he was grumpy, rude, morose, and scared other people. At the end of the book he turned into a kind, giving, charitable, and happy old man. He donated money to Tiny Tim when he was getting ill. Scrooge couldn’t bear to know that Tiny Tim was going to die, so he donated money to help him get better. Also he gave his apprentice Crachit a pay raise and a late Christmas present. Everybody was so surprised by Scrooges new actions. He was excited with his new self. He now had people to talk to and be with him. I don’t think that all people can change but if you really tried I believe that it would be easy to make a difference in your life.
ReplyDeleteI do feel people can change in that short of time. I think that because if someone doesn’t bring in their homework constantly then they can change and start doing it. Another reason is because if you strongly dislike something then you decide to like it that's changing in a short period of time and be positive Once your so negative it can it old after a while and boring so you want to change after a period of time. Like Scrooge once you realize you're so mean and grumpy and you are also saying “bah humbug.” He saw his nephew and the Christmas past, present, and future ghost and he looked back he he was happy he didn't miss Christmas. When people change really quick it can be good or bad. In Scrooges case it was good. So people can change completely.
ReplyDeleteScrooge changed by being morose and rude all the time to being kind and really realizing there is more to life than money. I do think people can change because they can be affected by many different reasons. For instance, when many tragedies happen for the people in the army their loved ones can be affected by that. When you have a loved one in the army you worry about if they are okay or if the family will get a letter saying they didn’t make it. Many different things can affect you, but it always depends on what the situation is. It can change you like when the three ghost haunted Scrooge. Once he realized how he affected people, he changed his attitude and became nice.
ReplyDeleteScrooge has changed in many ways he went from being morose to a generous person and stopped caring about money. He should have thought about how money doesn’t make the world go round or money doesn’t win friendship or family.
ReplyDeleteHis first transformation happened when the Ghost of Christmas Past came. He realized how it all started with the compulsion for money. He also realized that he shouldn’t have treated Cratchit the way did and saw how Fezziwig cared for Ebenezer and his friend. Fezziwig threw a huge Christmas party for his workers and Scrooge didn’t do anything for Cratchit. In my experience I have dealt with some mean people and you have to show them how they affect other people’s life. My old friend Brenna was one of the meanest people I knew and she always called me mean things. I sort of did what the Ghost of Past did, I told her how her life and being to others can affect other people.
After, the Ghost of Christmas Past left the Ghost of Christmas Present came. He took Ebenezer to the Crachit’s home Present showed Scrooge how him being ignorant of giving Cratchit a raise affected their life because Tiny Tim was in the verge of dying and Tim just wanted to live his life to the fullest. Next they went to his nephew’s house, he saw Fred and his wife talking about him and how they toasted to them even though he didn’t go. Also Fred says that he reminds him as his mom Fan. These are all things that affected him and almost changed Scrooges idea of money, Christmas and kindness.
The last thing he did to change his whole idea of Christmas and his future was that he went to see his future with the Ghost of Christmas Future. He saw that people were talking about him and his death but he thought it was Marley. He sees later his maid and she is selling his possessions and Scrooge realized that he has to change he doesn’t want to die or have his family and friends hate him and that is when the true changing of him happens. He was one of the kindest souls after seeing those three ghosts and did the nicest things. This has happened to me before when I had to tell someone to stop being mean or bullying because it affects your life and other people too.
Scrooge changes from the begin of “A Christmas Carol” to the end. He was a cranky, negative old man that hated Christmas. He was greedy and self-centered. Spending time with his family was something he didn’t do. At the end he was full of joy. Christmas was now a thing that he loved! He went to his nephew’s house and had a great big feast with him and his wife. This change occurred after the three ghosts had visited him and showed him what had happened, what is happening, and what will happen in his life if he hadn’t changed his attitude. In real life, I do believe that people could change like Scrooge did. One reason is because someone can change their mind if they want. One time someone I knew thought Easter was a boring holiday. But one Easter that got something they really lid and they have loved Easter ever since! Little changes happen to everyone. You might have a bad attitude toward someone. They might meet them and notice that they aren’t so bad! So your attitude changes. I have had that happen to me before but now I know the person pretty well and we get along. Clearly, Scrooge changed from the begin of the story to the end just like ordinary people do everyday.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe that people can change like that. You can't go from the worlds most greedy miser to a benevolent man who enjoys life. Firstly, scrooge is a made up character with a made up town in a made up world. Everything down to the frail details are part of a made up world. You can't change like that. Change is a long brutal process, like natural selection naturally what is not fit won't survive. Over time generosity of scrooge eventually disappeared and was replace with wealth. Like natural selection if he did not acquire wealth He would of died because he could not get what he needs. This is why you can't change that fast.
ReplyDeleteI strongly believe that people can change drastically like Scrooge. Scrooge was a stingy, self-centered, miser who's only passion who money. The only thing he looked forward to was making more money. Through out the story we slowly could see Scrooge breaking down from what he was seeing and he overcame the odds. Scrooge eventually got rid of all his anger and hate and realized how exciting Christmas is. Now Scrooge is one of the most, if not the most benevolent people in his town. Scrooge became so charitable he saved Tiny Tim's life and also donated a ton of money to the poor and destitute. Clearly, if you even doubted people couldn't change, you were wrong, because if a greedy miser like Ebeneezer Scrooge can change anyone can!
ReplyDeleteScrooge's character develops, and changes very much throughout the play. In the beginning of the play, Scrooge was a grumpy, cruel, and morose miser, but by the end of the play Scrooge had completely changed into a kind, joyful, and charitable man. After seeing how wonderful his life used to be, how gloomy his life was in the present time, and how horrible his life/death would be in the future if he didn't change, Scrooge decided he must revise the way he goes about life. He changed not just for his sake, but for the people around him too. I believe that people can change the way Scrooge did, and many people often do. For example, I have a cousin, Whitney, and when I was a baby she used to put on tap shoes, and stomp on my fingers. She was always super mean to my brothers too, but now she is one of the kindest people I know, and she is always really nice, loving, and caring. I do believe that people can change completely as Scrooge does, and I believe that there are different people who change like that every single day.
ReplyDeleteI fully agree that people can change so completely as Scrooge did in "A Christmas Carol." Scrooge went from being a grumpy old miser in act 1 to a kind, charitable, christmas-y man. Changes like his really do happen in life. Things are always changing some faster than others, some slower. On the slow end lets use a plant as an example. The plant changes from a seed to a flower in weeks, but you don't see the change taking place. You see small stages in the transformation. In order for the seed to become a flower with leaves and a stem in such a short time it would have to be changing constantly. It would just be changing so slowly you don't see the change taking place, yet the seed still becomes something completely different from what it originally was. On the fast end we'll use a light bulb as an example. Lightbulbs light up rooms from complete darkness within a matter of seconds. Sometimes this change happens TOO fast and you don't even see it happen. But you still see the instant before and after affect.You still know approximately how long the change took. So as you can see, change happens everywhere, and constantly. Everybody is changing all the time. Not everbody changes overnight like Scrooge did, although others do. I'll bet everyone who reads this can honestly say that they are not the same person they were a year ago. I know I'm not! To be honest, last year I wasn't very nice to the people around me. The people I hung out with kind of brought out the worste in me. All I cared about was looking like some tough girl and that nothin phased me. In complete honesty I was a jerk. But then over the summer I started to think, was that really who I wanted to be? I completely changed my attitude. I worked alot harder to be nice to people. I stopped caring about the things I had before and focused on making people like the real me, not the old fake me. I even posted a public video on Facebook apologizing to the people I was rude to. 7th grade came around and suddenly everything was absolutley perfect. I had a ton of real friends who loved me for me. I started to really love myself because of it. I found something that really makes me happy along the way as well, music. So, in conclusion, change can happen. What's important is if you can take the extra step to make it happen.
ReplyDeleteScrooge changed from being a grumpy, selfish and uncaring person to a person who cared about others and wanted to make others happy. I do believe that people can change like this. If there is something that makes them realize that they need to change they can. Scrooge realized that he was lonely and missing out on sharing his life with people that cared about him. I think he realized that if he treated people more kind then it would be returned and he would like how that felt. Scrooge realized he was missing out on a better life. He realized that his money wasn't important if he couldn't share it with others who needed it more. By giving he made people happy and then he felt happy too.
ReplyDeleteScrooge had became a 100% different person from when after he saw the past, prestent, and future and truely noticing how people think of him and the way life should be for him and others with joy,happieness, and love. Over one night he turned from a morose miser to joyful giveing person. It would be hard to forgive scrooge because he was nice his whole life and is just changing now during the christmas season.Most people can't change that emedeit. Scrooge changed when he woke up and felt good about every thing. He attended his nephews feast and gave the porty and thin buisness men money. And that prooves he changed just thoses to things as well as giving money to the cratchits to support tiny tims life and help him live and in the play he did and ended up nameing his child ebenezier.
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