My Book Review > A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Everyone is familiar with Charles Dicken’s 'Christmas Carol'; hence, it is useless to summarize the story! I need not recall the role of the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present & Future, and how they will affect Ebenezer Scrooge’s life. The Spirit of Christmas is all about joy, benevolence, generosity… but Scrooge has forgotten everything about it; his life is a quest for money. Oh, what have you become, Ebenezer? Didn't you know that avarice is a curse, a sin!... Scrooge's life was empty, made of selfishness, loneliness and sadness. He didn’t pay attention to others anymore; everything was subordinated to the pursuit of profit. He just forgot that making profit is meaningless if it doesn’t bring happiness. And one cannot be happy if he or she isn’t satisfyingly connected to other people. Hence, aside from the lesson he’s been taught, the ghosts gave him a very precious gift: they brought him back to life! Ultimately, Scrooge must have been (and was!) thankful to the ghosts for this somewhat scary experience, because it helped him to exorcize his inner demons to get a better life. To sum up, even if everybody knows the whole story, it’s really a must-read book; Dicken’s words and sentences deserve to be read: a fab experience which brought me to his own fantastic world.