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Marley's Death
Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, dies. -
Christmas Eve Day
The reader is introduced to Scrooge. He is described as being selfish, greedy, and uncaring. Bob Cratchet, Scrooge's employee, asks for Christmas off to be with his family. Scrooge gets angry and says he hates Christmas because it's the one day he can't make money. Reluctantly, Scrooge tells Bob Cratchet he can have Christmas off. -
Christmas Eve Afternoon
Scrooge goes home and thinks he sees Jacob Marley's face in his door knocker. He looks again, but the door knocker just looks like it always does. He shrugs it off and goes inside. -
Christmas Eve Night
Scrooge is in bed and ready to go to sleep. When the clock strikes midnight, the ghost of Jacob Marley appears covered in chains. He tells Scrooge he has spent the last 6 years wandering the Earth because he was a bad person. He tells Scrooge three spirits will come tonight to try to save him from the same fate. Marley disappears and is convinced that it was all a dream. -
Christmas Morning at 1 O'Clock
Scrooge is visited by The Spirit of Christmas Past. This spirit is young and child-like. The spirit touches Scrooge's heart, granting him the ability to fly. The pair exits through the window. It takes him to the country where he grew up, and he sees his old school, now dead sister, and classmates. Then, the spirit takes Scrooge to see his past self break up with an old fiancée. Scrooge cries and begs to see no more. He awakens in his bedroom. -
Christmas Morning at 1:15 am
The second spirit, a majestic giant clad in green robes, sits atop a throne made of a gourmet feast. In a booming voice, the spirit announces himself as the Ghost of Christmas Present and his lifespan is a mere single day. The spirit takes Scrooge to Bob Cratchit's house. There, Scrooge sees the poor family happily enjoying Christmas dinner. He focuses on Tiny Tim and asks the Spirit of Christmas Present if he'll live. He is told the child will die. -
Christmas Morning at 1:30 am
The ghost of Christmas Future visits Scrooge. The ghost takes Scrooge to a series of strange places: the London Stock Exchange, where people celebrate the death of a rich man; a dingy pawn shop in a London slum, where people sell the dead man's stuff; the dinner table of a poor family, where a husband and wife are happy the rich man has died; and the Cratchit household, where the family struggles to cope with the death of Tiny Tim. Scrooge finds out the dead rich man is him. -
Christmas Morning 8:00 am
Scrooge wakes up in his bed and realizes it is Christmas morning. Overjoyed to have a second chance at life, Scrooge starts yelling Merry Christmas. Scrooge runs into the street and offers to pay the first boy he meets a huge sum to deliver a great Christmas turkey to Bob Cratchit's. He later visits his nephew Fred and gives Bob Cratchit a raise. Tiny Tim lives and Scrooge becomes like a second father to him.
