Christmas Carols: English-Chinese Contrast

Author: Charles Dickens
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Publish Date: 1999-08-01
Features: Ebenezer Scrooge is a grumpy, miserable, and miserly old man. When his nephew visits him on Christmas Eve to wish him a Merry Christmas, Scrooge is not at all happy. "Pah! A humbug!" he says. "Christmas is a humbug! The tongues of all the people who go around saying 'Merry Christmas' should be cut out. Yes, he would!" Oh! By the way, Scrooge is a mean and miserly person. His employee Bob Cratchit can only earn 15 shillings a week and can only work in a small and cold office, where the fire is so small that it doesn't even warm his toes. But on that Christmas Eve, the ghost of Scrooge's long-dead partner Jacob Marley visited him, and then three other ghosts came as well. That night was particularly long and terrifying, and by the time Christmas finally arrived, Scrooge had indeed become a different person.