Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Student Activities | Plays/Performances

A Christmas Carol is a ghost of a tale about the mean-spirited Ebenezer Scrooge—a businessman who believes charity promotes idleness and the poor should be left to die. Having a ‘Merry Christmas’ would consist of one “boiling in his own pudding and being buried with a stake of holly through his heart” if Scrooge could have his way! In one spirited night after receiving visits from his dead business partner, and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future—Scrooge awakes to the realization he’s been given a second chance to correct his mean and surly disposition toward humanity and Christmas.