My Book Review > A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Everyone is familiar with Charles Dickenâs '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 Scroogeâs 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 didnât pay attention to others anymore; everything was subordinated to the pursuit of profit. He just forgot that making profit is meaningless if it doesnât bring happiness. And one cannot be happy if he or she isnât satisfyingly connected to other people. Hence, aside from the lesson heâs 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, itâs really a must-read book; Dickenâs words and sentences deserve to be read: a fab experience which brought me to his own fantastic world.