literal laugh out loud moment: "The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more children there than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count; and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty."
Reading this passage reminded me of the large family Dickens had in his own life. He wasn’t a great dad, (he did leave his first wife for a much younger woman 😬) but he loved his ten kids and had crazy nicknames for each of them. I felt like he was channeling his own Christmas’s in this scene.
I think it's really lovely how even Dickens gets lost in his own descriptions, how he wishes he was a kid again just like the children in his story. It shows a real passion for his story that isn't seen a lot anymore! I also love that they visit Scrooge's ex - it's both heartbreaking and joyful that she had a happy life without him.
literal laugh out loud moment: "The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more children there than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count; and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty."
"Hello, reader. It's me, your narrator, here to break the flow of the story to directly address you on one of my favorite topics: teenage girls."
For Scrooge to be shown what he could have had, is quite the painful lesson. But it's one he needed.
Personally, I liked to see that Belle is not angry at her broken off engagement, even thinking of Scrooge as "an old friend".
Reading this passage reminded me of the large family Dickens had in his own life. He wasn’t a great dad, (he did leave his first wife for a much younger woman 😬) but he loved his ten kids and had crazy nicknames for each of them. I felt like he was channeling his own Christmas’s in this scene.
I think it's really lovely how even Dickens gets lost in his own descriptions, how he wishes he was a kid again just like the children in his story. It shows a real passion for his story that isn't seen a lot anymore! I also love that they visit Scrooge's ex - it's both heartbreaking and joyful that she had a happy life without him.