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Themes of A Christmas Carol Themes of A Christmas Carol
ReadOasis Step 5 "Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard... Themes of A Christmas Carol

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"Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster." This is the crooked disposition of one Ebenezer Scroogefrom Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, that magical story of redemption that begins with a memory. Only a spirit could have startled Scrooge w...

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