A cold heart

Authors Note: Theme is a big part in every book./novel, that's exactly why I wrote an essay providing the importance of theme in the book A Christmas Carol while comparing it to two other wonderful books. 

Complete and utter loneliness is the life Ebenezer Scrooge walks in. He can’t saunter down the icy street of Great Britain without people giving him weird looks and straying far away from him. A normal human would feel disowned by this, but Scrooge was far from normal. This rudeness made Scrooge pleased that he didn’t need to come in contact with such idiotic pedestrians. Even during the merry time of Christmas! His cold heart wouldn’t warm one degree during the cold harsh season! That was until the night three phantoms haunted him; sent from his dead pal Marley. The ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Changing his misery to jolliness just in time for Christmas day. Although Ebenezer Scrooge changes he still has the past of his lonely life growing up and running his business. That is why I consider Loneliness a large theme in the book “A Christmas Carol”.

Ebenezer grew up in a family that found him as a disgrace. He lived most of his childhood years in the lonesome boarding school, not even taken home for the Holiday Season. Obviously making Christmas a spiteful time of the year for old Ebenezer. Even the poorest of people had felt the warmth of Christmas, but Ebenezer felt nothing. It’s quite sad and a tragedy that Scrooge as a boy never received the unconditional love that every young child should. Making him envious of the people who did.

But that envious attitude didn’t end there, it went through his adult years as well.  Once Marley becomes desist he spends each day alone. Accompanied by his underpaid clerk, which he would not consider a friend.  Scrooge lives a solitary life keeping each door double locked, separating himself from the world outside. But once in contact with peaceful pedestrians he becomes irritated and cold. No one chooses to talk to him because of his negativity. Making him the most solitude man in town.

Having a solitary life wasn’t the result for only Scrooge in  A Christmas Carol  but, also many other books. Speak being one of those.  A adolescent girl becomes an outcast due to a huge misunderstanding. No one knows her true story and what she’s been through. Although, the kids at her school still end up giving her rude glares and ignore her completely. Just like the people on the street do to Scrooge. No one knows their stories. Along with Pictures of Hollis Woods. A lonesome orphan runs away from every family she’s been with, never feeling wanted or loved. Just like Scrooge as a boy. As you can see each book illustrates the theme of loneliness and demonstrates it quiet nicely.

Life for the lonely is bitter and cold. Only the heartless can deal with that and Ebenezer Scrooge, although it may seem otherwise, had a heart. A heart that just needed to find a purpose and thanks to the three phantoms Ebenezer found that purpose right in time for Christmas. Along with the girls from Pictures of Hollis Woods and Speak. They just needed that purpose and at the end of each book that purpose was fulfilled. Making loneliness sometimes turn in to a, cliché, but very happy ending.