Charles Dickens is a well know author that has written many famous works. One of his most popular and best-loved books is "A Christmas Caro" (Rowell 1). In Dickens's book "A Christmas Carol" four ghosts appear to Ebenezer Scrooge, each representing a moral lesson that teaches Scrooge how to better live his life. The first of the four ghosts to visit Scrooge is the ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley comes to warn …showed first 75 words of 1073 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1073 total…to the world around him. In the preface of the book "A Christmas Carol", Charles Dickens writes, "I have endeavored in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves...each other...the season, or with me" (Dickens 3). Dickens uses the spirits of four ghosts to haunt Scrooge and raise in his mind the idea that he should live his life better.