Comment 12- Dickens & Christmas

Dickens & Christmas

          Charles Dickens was born on 7th of February 1812. He was the second child of 8. His family moved to London in 1822 and at the age of 12, Charles had to start to work on a Blacking Factory labelling bottles 11 hours a day. His father was sent to prison and he visited him every Sunday. In 1827 he began to work as a solicitor´s clerk. Later, in 1831, he began a journalistic career; writing became his passion. In 1835 he meets Catherine, they fell in love and got married. In 1842, they travelled to America. When he was 44, he bought a very big house and got divorced because he had an affair with an actress called Helen . In 1865, he had a train crash while he was returning from Paris. He continued writing and later in 1870, his health began to fail and he died at home on 9th June at the age of 58. He´s buried in Westminster Abbey.

About the Christmas Carol novel, I really enjoyed reading it because the story was very interesting and entertaining. The story is about a mean old man, called Scrooge, who only cared about making money. He didn´t like Christmas and his life changed when he recieved the visit of three ghosts, on Christmas Eve. The ghosts showed him his past, his present and his future . He didn´t like his future so he decided to become a better person helping poor people and spending Christmas with his nephew.