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

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.

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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