May I know your insights/ reflections about the book entitled A Christmas caol by Charles Dickens?

Question

Hi. I would like to know what your insights and/or reflections are about the book. It's a great story but I find it a bit profound. Thanks!

Answer 1

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a classic book about redemption and second chances and forgiveness. I would say that you're right to call it profound.

You clearly see that Scrooge's very nature was one of generosity and goodness, but the fear of the world and poverty changed him into a "stingy, grasping, covetous old sinner." What he became was not what he could or should have been. Wrong choices and the wrong path made him into that cold and unfeeling man that he became.

In fact as a youth, his nature was closer to that of his sister's than to the man he became through choosing wrong over right, love of money over love of people, fear over faith.

Interwoven into the story is the fact - which the spirits make clear - that Ebenezer Scrooge had forgotten the One Whose birthday we celebrate at Christmas. It was that same Jesus, Who (by implication) is the Initiator of Scrooge's second chance and the giver of the forgiveness he so needs.

That life-altering visit with the ghosts reminded Scrooge of what he once was and what he should have become and what he could have had if he'd only remained true to himself and the nature he was given. Seeing the truth makes a profound impact on Scrooge, and melts his closed heart. Once the truth is embraced and the heart is open, Scrooge finds the forgiveness he needs and his life is forever changed.

This book Charles Dickens' wrote was actually a nearly perfect story of hope and salvation with a seasonal setting that is completely appropriate.

It's a book I read every Christmas to remind me of what's truly important in life and especially at Christmas.

Answer 2

And here all this time I thought Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" was meant to be profound. I just looked profound up in my pathetic dictionary, and to shorten the first definition to "deep," that is what I thought the story was reaching for.

Definitely a great story: miserly to giving; three ghosts to get there; all of time to write about... yes, I think the story was meant to be profound. "Deep-reaching" and all that. I think it usually succeeds, too!

Answer 3

It is a classic. Live life fully, love and allow yourself to be loved. Don't lock away your heart or you will end up old and alone.