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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens. 1812-1870 Born in Portsmouth England yet lived mostly in London, England Writer 16 Major Novels Revolutionized novel writing A civil rights leader for the poor. Debtors Prison. Son of John and Elizabeth Dickens

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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  1. A Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens

  2. Charles Dickens • 1812-1870 • Born in Portsmouth England yet lived mostly in London, England • Writer • 16 Major Novels • Revolutionized novel writing • A civil rights leader for the poor

  3. Debtors Prison • Son of John and Elizabeth Dickens • Father went into debt • Parents sent to debtors prison (Mom there with younger children) • Charles removed from school • Forced to work at blacking factory to pay off parents debt now “man of the house”

  4. Words Used in Time

  5. Overnight Bestseller • Published December 19, 1843 • Sold 8,000 copies in first week • Many people who bought were illiterate • People either read it or had it read to them • Known as “the little book” • Instant success • Today more copies than any other book except the Bible

  6. 1843 London

  7. Dickens London

  8. Ebenezer Scrooge

  9. Marley the Ghost

  10. Not this Marley

  11. Ghost of Christmas Past

  12. Ghost of Christmas Present

  13. Ghost of Christmas Future.. (yet to come)

  14. Stave = Chapter • Carol as in a song… think Christmas Carolers • Stave is a section of music • Chapters called Stave 1,2,3,4, and 5 • Each stave is for a different ghost • Stave 1 is the exposition • Stave 5 is the resolution • According to Mrs. Garvin it’s very symphonic…

  15. Long Lasting Effects • Made people want and learn to read • Created social awareness of poverty • Created social awareness of child labor • Created social awareness of orphans • People reacted • Social classicism was identified

  16. Influence on Christmas • Not a novel about religion or Christmas, but ended up revolutionizing the holiday • Christmas celebration in decline before novel • Industrial revolution (work) allowed little time for workers to celebrate • Dickens and his novel had more influence on Christmas than any other person except one

  17. Oh, and…Santa Claus

  18. Dickens says… • “The holidays are 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 other people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys". • This was what Dickens described for the rest of his life as the "Carol Philosophy".

  19. Father Christmas • Dickens' name had become so synonymous with Christmas that on hearing of his death in 1870 a little costermonger's girl in London asked, "Mr. Dickens dead? Then will Father Christmas die too?"

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