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Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, has not a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished. Clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. Nevertheless, in the night, spirits of another color visits Scrooge. Straightforward adaptation of Dickens. The two people affect scrooges in the story are his sis death, and his girlfriend. The Ghost says they will see another Christmas, and the young Scrooge grows larger as the room becomes dirtied. A little girl, Scrooge's sister Fan, runs into the room, and announces that she has come to take Ebenezer home. Their father is much kinder, she says. He has given his consent to Ebenezer's return. The young Scrooge, delighted to see his sister, embraces her joyfully. The aged Scrooge regretfully tells the ghost that Fan died many years ago and is the mother of his nephew Fred. There is no love interest in Scrooge other than, in his case, reluctantly, the Christmas Spirit. Belle is the lead female character in Beauty and the Beast. There is no connection between the two. Actually, Belle is Scrooge's girlfriend, who broke up with him because he did not love her anymore/loved money too much, not Belle from beauty and the beast. In A Christmas Carol, Belle quotes: "another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve" and then Scrooge says "what idol has displaced you?" and belle says "a golden one". Ebenezer Scrooge learned the same lesson from the three spirits. From all of them, he learned that he needed to turn his life around and be a happier. More caring person than he was at the beginning of the story. Each spirit taught him a different part of that lesson. Anyway, scrooge should not keep himself away from people, and he think that the money is the only stays for people. Nothing will stay to the end not even money. The only thing will stay is memories. Therefore, he started to build in everyone memories

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