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Another modern day film that relates to the book a Christmas Carol (1843) is A Dennis the Menace Christmas (2007). Mr. Wilson portrays Scrooge as Dennis portrays the three ghost as he boost up Mr.Wilson's Christmas Spirit.
Resources: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0918511/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

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An example of modern day film that relates to the Christmas Carol book, is all the different Christmas Carol movies. All of the books and movies may have the same idea and overall story to them but none of them are exactly the same. The book A Christmas Carol came out first on December 19th 1843 and since then the first A Christmas Carol movie was released in 1901 created by Daniel Smith since there there has been multiple other A Christmas Carol films released such as Mary Stewart's version in 1975 to Jim Carry's version in 2009. Throughout time there has been twenty two different version of A Christmas Carol movie. They are all related in one special way though and that is by telling the story of what changed Scrooge.
Resource: http://www.dickenslondontours.co.uk/a-christmas-carol-films.htm

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In this political cartoon, there is a revamping of the class Christmastime story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, just in terms of the economy and politics.  The 1% of Americans that make exorbitant amounts of money each year is represented by Ebenezer Scrooge, the wealthy businessman from the story.  The Ghost of Christmas Future is represented by a hooded figure, bearing the title “Taxes.”  Lastly, the elephant, representing the Republican party, is pleading to the Ghost not to harm Scrooge, or the 1%, but instead to go after the middle/lower class.

The philosophy insinuated in this political cartoon is that the Republican party is more concerned with protecting the wealthy than the middle class/lower class/those who are suffering/those who are struggling.  Recently though, especially in the last year, with talks of the Fiscal Cliff ongoing, taxes have been one of the central topics of discussion.  However, Republican lawmakers have been inflexible in their position of not wanting to raise taxes on upper-income Americans, while having no problem with raising taxes on the middle class, thus putting the burden on those who are the most vulnerable.  Even while many of the country’s richest citizens have spoken out stating that they would gladly pay more taxes, policy has yet to move towards that direction in any real way.

Taxes are portrayed as a foreboding character, since they are going to affect some group of people in the long run, and the majority of Americans feel that it is just fair that those who have more money pay more taxes on the dollar for every dollar over $250,000.  As a result, this political cartoon not only appeals to the reader’s pathos–if they are one of the people who feel that the rich should pay more–as well as logos, since it’s sort of a matter of logic, whether or not the rich should pay more since they have more.

However, the logic of that can easily vary from person to person, depending on whether or not any given person holds “Robin Hood-esque” values of social welfare.

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December 7, 2012 by Audrey Goldman
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My author says this magical time of year, none are more profound than those tied to the era of Charles Dickens. The crisp winter weather with the snap of Jack Frost in the air, the windows glowing welcome, the excitement of children wondering what gifts Santa might bring, and the strong sense of community gained from sharing the joy of the season…I love this time of year.

His first painting in the Old Time Christmas Collection, A Victorian Christmas Carol, honors this joyous season. Period characters populate this quaint Victorian neighborhood, each enjoying the day with a merry chat, a peaceful stroll, a Yuletide carol, a stolen kiss under the mistletoe, a sleigh ride with Santa and, of course, a joyful snowball fight is in the making! Look closely you might even find a few characters from stories of Christmas past. I hope that my painting, A Victorian Christmas Carol, fills both your heart and your home with that same holiday cheer.   - Thomas Kinkade
The ironic intensity of 'Carol of the bells'.
-Originally a Ukrainian folk chant about spring, the Christmas song reached its zenith with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s electric guitar-infused adaptation.
“Carol of the Bells” be the most ironic holiday song there is? It purports to be a song about, well, bells, but its most popular versions instead feature human voices or electric guitars. Its lyrics describe silver bells intoning holiday cheer into every home, yet its melody suggests a force both relentless and mirthless. If you want a genuinely merry tune about the sound of ringing signaling the arrival of Christmas, go with “Silver Bells.” If, on the other hand, you’re trying to find fitting music for the scene where Tiny Tim dies of sickness and malnourishment while Scrooge counts his fortune,“Carol of the Bells” is perfect, right down to the low, funereal “Bohm” that concludes most choral versions of the song.
- The song that would become “Carol of the Bells” began its life as a Ukrainian folk chant,“Shchedryk,” arranged into a choral composition in the early 20th century by the composer Mykola Leontovych. In the chant, which was originally sung to welcome spring, a swallow flies into a man’s house and tweets about imminent good fortune. (This would at least somewhat explain the frantic, haunting melody, inspired by a swallow’s song.) When another composer, Peter Wilhousky, heard a choir perform “Shchedryk,” he was supposedly reminded of ringing bells, and wrote the English lyrics to “Carol of the Bells” as a result.

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This is Scrooge and Marley. marley is trying to talk with Scrooge.

This image portrays Scrooge as an evil, mean person. also, he was portrayed as a bad person because the narrator hates him.

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A Child's Christmas in Wales (1952) - Is a book about an adult who is remembering his past as a kid and how Christmas was to him back then and how different it is now as an adult.
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957)- is a book that is like a remade version of the Scrooge but instead of reliving the past a small girl helps him learn the true meaning of Christmas.

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Copyright- Dickens 1843/Marvel 1978
Marvel's Comic replica of Dickens' originally black and white comic.
The site that published the comic is sheeplaughs.

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https://genius.com/Metallica-fade-to-black-lyrics
Fade to Black by Metallica relates to "A Christmas Carol" because the main character Scrooge is a very gloomy individual. The song represents a person slowly, but surely fading to black. The lyrics in the song say "Life it seems, to fade away, drifting further everyday... getting lost within myself, nothing matters, no one else, I have lost the will to live." In the story Scrooge looses his dear friend and work partner, Marley, and when Marley passed away, Scrooge began to fade to black, slowly losing himself. Scrooge doesn't quite care about anyone, but himself.
Nothing else matters by Metallica also relates to "A Christmas Carol" because Scrooge cares about nothing else, but himself and finds nothing else that makes him happy because of how gloomy his soul is.
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/metallica/nothingelsematters.html
The lyrics represent Scrooge 100 %.
I Stay Away by Alice and Chains represents the ghost as well as Scrooge. The ghosts stay away until Scrooge's fear builds up.
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/aliceinchains/istayaway.html

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http://www.sheeplaughs.com/scrooge/comicpage13.htm
Black and White comic, copyright

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The most modern day movie that relates to A Christmas Carol is the Grinch both the cartoon version and the original movie  of the Grinch. Scrooge is greatly now represented as the Grinch to explain how the Scrooge acted and felt about Christmas. A Christmas Carol  film came out in 1938 although they have made multiple different version leading up to the most recent version made it 2009. The Grinch cartoon came out in 1966 and the actual Grinch movie came out in 2000. That is the most known modern day example when it comes to films.
Resource: http://www.readbrightly.com/from-scrooge-to-the-grinch-why-we-love-christmas-curmudgeons/

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