The Ghost of Christmas Past shows Scrooge his early, happy Christmases, and the incidents that led him to eventually detest the holiday. He's taught a few life lessons when he experiences supernatural visits from four characters.įirst, business partner Jacob Marley returns to Earth to warn Ebenezer that if he doesn't change his ways, his fate in the hereafter will be as ugly as Marley's. He has no use for love of family, and treats his employees poorly. The iconic Scrooge is a miser who says "humbug" to sentimentality, especially to Christmas joy.
Sloppy eventually becomes a carpenter and falls in love with a disabled young lady who makes doll clothes. In fact, he ends up depositing the evildoer into a trash bin. Sloppy winds up returning the favor to the Boffins by foiling the plot of a man who was trying to blackmail the family. Hidgen is so devoted to Sloppy's future that she actually runs away so that Sloppy will have no choice but to join the Boffins. When Sloppy is given the opportunity to be adopted by a family named Boffin, he refuses out of loyalty to Hidgen. While thought to have a learning disability, his reading so delights Hidgen that she exclaims, "You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. Sloppy and other children are taken in by Betty Higden, for whom Sloppy does chores, such as helping her watch the other children and reading to her from the newspaper. Sloppy, is one of Dickens's many orphan characters.
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