Story · A household shelf · 1843
Pass it on
A Christmas Carol
85Living historically.
Hand it on. A man is allowed to change, and a child's house is the test.
The review
Ebenezer Scrooge keeps the books and keeps nothing else. The story does not ask you to despise work. It asks what the work is for. Bob Cratchit's house, with too little food and a sick child, is the answer Scrooge has been refusing.
The ghosts are the device. The point is that a man can be shown the truth about himself and still have time to act. Read it aloud in December, and then look at who eats at your table.
Journal
Keep A Christmas Carol in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 85. Yours can differ.
The glance
Courage is the thin one.
Does anyone risk something they would miss, or is it only noise?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Pilgrim's Progress
91 instead of 85
The Pilgrim's Progress is still a story film, and it scores 91 instead of 85. What you gain is courage: The valley and the fight are there so he can refuse to turn around.
The eight
- 8Industry
The office is real work. Money that feeds no house fails the measure.
- 9Household
The Cratchit table and the nephew's dinner are the life Scrooge refused.
- 9Piety
The ghosts will not let him call his life a private matter.
- 7Courage
He looks at his own grave and does not look away.
- 8Republic
He owes his clerk, and he owes the poor of the city.
- 8Temperance
Greed is named. The feast comes after the change, not instead of it.
- 9Truth
He has been lying to himself. The story will not join the lie.
- 10Stewardship
Tiny Tim is the future. The story is about what a man leaves.
Where to read
Finding the page.
Live Historic · A Christmas Carol · 85IMDb
