“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone … a squeezing, wrenching, gasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”
So wrote Charles Dickens in 1843 of the character Scrooge, who has since become associated with our festive season of repentance and redemption.
In a Christmas Carol, the first spirit – the Ghost of Christmas Past – reminds a miserable Scrooge of a period of innocence in his life by taking him back to see his time as a child.
Scrooge is challenged to contemplate his loneliness at boarding school and the ways in which he was treated by his beloved sister and an employer who looked on him like a son. It is easy to lose sight of the person we once we were and the life experiences that have shaped the character we are today.
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