The Christmas Carol is a novel about a miserable old man who has cruel ideologies and hates everyone since the death of his sister after having been shown his past, his present and his future in threes he changes ghost and becomes the opposite of what he is in Stave 1. The author of the novel, Charles Dickens, had an idyllic childhood but, At the age of twelve he was forced to work in a workshop as his father was imprisoned for debt. He wrote the novel to show how economic and social difference affected the poor, as he himself had made the. experience of poverty. In Stave 1, Dickens shows that Scrooge is a "greedy old sinner who squeezes, tears, grabs, scratches, clings. This shows that Scrooge is a greedy and unholy man, he would rather take than give and". always thinks of himself. Dickens shows this by introducing his nephew who invites Scrooge to Christmas dinner, which Scrooge bitterly rejects his hatred of Christmas by telling the people. “should be boiled into their own Christmas pudding.” Dickens makes us see Christmas the way Scrooge sees it. Dickens says that Scrooge is as “lonely as an oyster” to imply that Scrooge lives alone in his own little world. He also implies that Scrooge is cold and slimy. Dickens also says he is cold. locks himself into his own world or “shell” and hides from everyone. Dickens introduces two portly gentlemen into the fray who ask Scrooge to make a donation to the poor and prevent them from being transferred to a workhouse, which is incredibly cramped and dirty. knowing Scrooge's wealth, he asks him to give a sum of money "Why must I put you down?" Dickens shows Scrooge to be incredibly selfish when Scrooge replies that he cannot afford to make "idle people merry" and says that those in the middle of a paper......part of the story Scrooge is a miserable man who hates almost everything and everyone, he treats people like they are nothing to him and he is everyone's superior, highlighting how the rich would have acted towards the poor back in the day by Dickens. The book also relates to biblical history. of "Saul or Paul" and how it changes in the Bible, the book is equally important for adults and children alike because it highlights what they can do to change. The sudden awareness of how the poor were treated led to a welfare state. produced by the government to be more charitable towards the poor and help them financially, to highlight the success of the book, almost all the Christmas stories are based on it and there are many films based on the book, this shows to how popular and morally correct he is. the book is like the book is still relevant in helping those less fortunate than us, even now.