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The Characters:

- Ebenzer Scrooge

Scrooge is A miserable, bitter old miser, Scrooge hates irrational things like happiness, generosity,
and Christmas, until a trio of Ghosts shows him the error of his ways.

- Bob Crachit

Bob is the poor clerk that works for Scrooge's moneylending firm,
Cratchit is the father of Tiny Tim,an angelic sickly boy.

- Jacob Marley

Marley was scrooge's partner for life, and he is giving him a visit as a ghost.

- Fred

Scrooge's nephew, the son of his beloved but now dead sister, is his only living relative,
and also the only person who wants to pull him out of isolation and back into the world.

- Fezziwig

Fezziwig was The jolly businessman with whom Scrooge apprenticed,
Fezziwig appears in the one happy memory of Christmas Past.

- Ghost Of Christmas Past

An unsettling combination of a small child and an old man,
this Ghost takes Scrooge on a tour of his past Christmases in order to reconnect him to his feelings.

- Ghost Of Christmas Present

A hale and hearty fellow, the Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge how
the other half of the people he knows how they spend their Christmas holidays.

- Ghost Of Christmas Yet To Come

However sad and unpleasant Scrooge's midnight adventures have been, they are all fun
and games until the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows up.
This thing isn't even called a ghost any more,Dickens changes the terminology
and starts referring to this super menacing cloaked figure as a "phantom."