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actually answers of most of your questions can be found in wikipedia...@@
Place: i guess it's not specified? not sure, sorry...
Time: Victorian era (<=a period of time) / Christmas Eve(24/12)
Characters:
[Principal]
* Ebenezer Scrooge
* Jacob Marley (who appears in the story only as a ghost)
* Bob Cratchit
* Tiny Tim
* The Ghost of Christmas Past
* The Ghost of Christmas Present
* The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
* Fred (Scrooge's nephew)
[Supporting]
* Fezziwig (to whom Scrooge had been apprenticed as a youth)
* Fan (Scrooge's sister)
* Belle (a young woman to whom Scrooge was once engaged)
* Mrs. Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife)
* Peter Cratchit (Bob's eldest son)
* Martha Cratchit (Bob's eldest daughter)
* Mrs. Dilber (Scrooge's charwoman)
* The Laundress
* Old Joe (a receiver of stolen goods; in the "future" segment of the story, he is given the dead Scrooge's belongings, after his room and his body have been plundered by Mrs. Dilber and the Laundress)
* The Two Portly Gentlemen
SUMMARY: (more than 180-200 words, i know....@@)
(from:
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol)
The story is about Ebenezer Scrooge. At the beginning of the book he is a mean old man who runs a business lending people money. These people are poor and often cannot pay him back. He pays his clerk Bob Cratchit badly.
On Christmas Eve, Scrooge refuses an invitation to his nephew's house for Christmas dinner, telling him he hates it (he calls it a "Humbug"). He then refuses to give money to two men who are collecting for charity.
Later that evening, he is visited by the ghost of his dead business partner Jacob Marley, who went to (censored) because of his bad life. He tells Scrooge that the same future will happen to him unless he changes and that during the night he will be visited by three more ghosts. These will show him where he went wrong in his life, and how to be a better person in the future.
The first ghost is the Ghost of Christmas Past. This ghost shows him where he went wrong in the past, showing him his unhappy childhood and how he did not get married.
The second ghost is the Ghost of Christmas Present. This ghost shows him things which are happening now, such as how his clerk, Bob Cratchit, is having a nice Christmas despite not having much money. He also shows him Bob's youngest son, Tiny Tim, who is crippled. Later, the ghost shows him how his nephew is having a good Christmas, and how Scrooge is missing out.
The third ghost is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. This ghost shows Scrooge what Christmas will be like in the future if he does not change. Firstly, people are shown celebrating a man's death and robbing from his house. The ghost also shows him that Tiny Tim has died. Scrooge is then shown his own grave, and realises that the celebrations were for his death.
On Christmas morning, Scrooge wakes up and realises that he has to change. He decides to celebrate Christmas, and help Tiny Tim get better. Through the ghosts' help he has become a better man.
and comment? don't know, maybe you can say something like what you've learnt from the story.....?
2006-12-29 01:48:02 補充:
可以參考這裡的中文介紹:
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E6%B0%A3%E8%B2%A1%E7%A5%9E