Questions to be discussed: 1. Which ghost do you think had the greatest effect on Scrooge?
Why?
2. How does Scrooge's character transform over the course of the
play?
3. How is Scrooge affected by seeing the Cratchit family?
4. What are the lessons that Dickens (author) was trying to teach
us in "A Christmas Carol"? How well did he succeed?
5. Dickens shows the importance of family and love in the
Christmas tradition. How does Tiny Tim help reveal this theme?
6. How can seeing things from someone else's perspective change
your understanding about something?
7. Why is Bob Cratchit happy, even though he doesn't have any
money?
8. Why does Marley's ghost drag a chain fastened to cash-boxes,
keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy steel purses? Also,
explain why these items were used as a warning to Ebenezer
Scrooge. What do they symbolize?
9. "A Christmas Carol“ proposes the idea that tangible riches (an
abundance of food, luxuries, and so on) mean nothing unless they
are accompanied by intangible ones, such as love and warmth of
spirit. Intangible riches, Dickens argues, do have value
independent of tangible ones; one can merrily celebrate
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