The love of a family
The love of a family
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The love of a family
The nephew of Scrooge, Fred, comes to Scrooge's business to invite him to a Christmas celebration. Despite Scrooge's grumpiness and refusal, Fred continues to extend the invitation with warmth and cheer.
Scrooge and the Ghost arrive just as the party on Christmas Eve has finished dinner, and the guests are enjoying some after-dinner talk. Scrooge overhears his nephew express his opinion of Scrooge -- a feeling not of anger, but of pity, pointing out that his ill-temper hurts nobody but himself. The party then goes into music, followed by a game of blind-man's bluff, and then the Victorian game "How, When, and Where." It ended with a game of "Yes or No," similar to our present game of "20 Questions." The nephew Fred says he is thinking of an animal who lives in London, and eventually his sister figures out it is Scrooge.
Scrooge's relationship with his nephew was a distant relationship in emotion. Left to his care by his sister, Scrooge saw to it that his nephew was well provided for, but because of his overly focused work ethics and the fact that he didn't really know what family was, he never spent time with his nephew. He turned down many invitations over the years to spend Christmas with his nephew and it wasn't until the end, after being visited by the three spirits of Christmas, that Scrooge realized what he had been missing.
The love of a family
Fan was Fred's mother but died giving birth to him and Ebenezer Scrooge never forgave Fred for it. Just like Ebenezer's mother died giving birth to him, and just like Scrooge never forgave Fred for 'killing' Fan, his father never forgave Scrooge either.
The second spirit to visit scrooge in A Christmas Carol is the Ghost of Christmas Present. The ghost takes Scrooge to both his nephew and employee's home in the present time. He also appears with two spirit children, Ignorance and Want.
Fred was born and his mother, Fan (Scrooges sister) died in thatchild birth. This was common at the time in Britain. Scrooge resnet Fred for tha and then when Fred married someone who brought no money to the marridge Scrooge disowned Fred cutting him off without a penny
A "scrooge" is a nickname for somebody who is a "party pooper" during Christmas time, or basically, somebody who looks at Christmas as a time for frivolous money spending and snooty kids, and doesn't enjoy any aspect of it. Scrooge was the name of the main character in Charles Dickens' classic, A Christmas Carol. An example of "scrooge" being used in a sentence: "Don't be such a scrooge. Christmas is about giving, not receiving."
According to Scrooge's nephew, Christmas time is "a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.".