SCROOGE AND HIS RELATIONSHIPS

SCROOGE AND MARLEY

• Marley was Scrooges business partner and only friend although they didn't act like it at the time
• Their relationship was mostly cold and calculating before
• Scrooge didn't fully consider how much Marley meant to him until the visit
• Scrooge Realized that Marley cared about him and vice versa

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BOB CRACHET

• Bob was under appreciated and over worked in the beginning
• Then the ghosts showed Scrooge an insight into bobs hard life
• Scrooge realized that there were consequences to his poor treatment of bob
• Scrooge corrected it by raising his salary and being kinder toward bob
• This resulted in a strong friendship between the two men

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THE FUNDRAISERS

• Scrooge at first was appalled when asked to give money for charity
• He inquired coldly "are there no prisons"
• He was then shown how poor people live and how hard they had to try to survive
• At the end he donated a very generous amount of money to the same fund raisers

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MONEY

• Scrooge started out a very cheap, stingy and wealthy man
• His relationship with money was mainly greed
• He was shown what good his money could do
• He then Started to spend it on things he saw as important like tiny tim

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TINY TIM

• Scrooge was not originally aware of tiny Tim or his condition
• When shown it, he was devastated at the thought of Tims current fate
• After, he gave bob money for the treatment and Tim was healed
• Scrooge became a second father figure for the young boy

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FRED

• Fred longed for Scrooges attention and friendship, inviting him frequently
• Scrooge thought Fred a foolish man and rudely rejected him
• Scrooge then saw how much fun Fred's party was and how they felt about him
• Scrooge then attended the party and had a lot of fun with his nephew

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CONCLUSION

• Beginning the story was a grumpy, stingy, hated and pitied man
• He had no friends or family to keep him company
• Then the ghosts of christmas showed him the path he was on
• He mended broken relationships and changed his attitude
• He lived out the rest of his life in the comfort of having people that cared about him