My Featured Film

A Christmas Carol

I. About the Film

A Christmas Carol was the most successful book of the 1843 holiday season.  By Christmas it sold six thousand copies and it continued to be popular into the new year.  Eight stage adaptations were in production within two months of the book’s publication.

The book is as popular today as it was over 150 years ago.  Charles Dickens, through the voice of Scrooge, continues to urge us to honor Christmas in our hearts and  try to keep it all the year.

Works Cited （参考文献）

http://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/christmas-carol/

II. Versions of the Film

1.Mickey's christmas carol - Disney Christmas - Disney Classics 2015  

2.Animated Christmas Carol Movies - Christmas Animated Classic Movies 2015  

III. About the Author-Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens is much loved for his great contribution to classic English literature. He was the quintessential Victorian author. His epic stories, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable.

His own story is one of rags to riches. He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. The good fortune of being sent to school at the age of nine was short-lived because his father, inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in 'David Copperfield', was imprisoned for bad debt. The entire family, apart from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch. Charles was sent to work in Warren's blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair. After three years he was returned to school, but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalised in two of his better-known novels 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations'.Like many others, he began his literary career as a journalist. His own father became a reporter and Charles began with the journals 'The Mirror of Parliament' and 'The True Sun'. Then in 1833 he became parliamentary journalist for The Morning Chronicle. With new contacts in the press he was able to publish a series of sketches under the pseudonym 'Boz'. In April 1836, he married Catherine Hogarth, daughter of George Hogarth who edited 'Sketches by Boz'. Within the same month came the publication of the highly successful 'Pickwick Papers', and from that point on there was no looking back for Dickens.As well as a huge list of novels he published autobiography, edited weekly periodicals including 'Household Words' and 'All Year Round', wrote travel books and administered charitable organisations. He was also a theatre enthusiast, wrote plays and performed before Queen Victoria in 1851. His energy was inexhaustible and he spent much time abroad - for example lecturing against slavery in the United States and touring Italy with companions Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins, a contemporary writer who inspired Dickens' final unfinished novel 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'.He was estranged from his wife in 1858 after the birth of their ten children, but maintained relations with his mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan. He died of a stroke in 1870. He is buried at Westminster Abbey.

Works Cited （参考文献）

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/dickens_charles.shtml

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - character

• Characters are persons, or animals or natural forces represented as persons, in a work of film or literature.
• In Christmas carol, the main characters are ⓵an old man called Scrooge and ⓶⓷⓸three genies. ⓵Scrooge is this story's main character. He is engage in the office and very greed, ruthless and stinginess. ⓶One of the genie is about past. He pulls back Scrooge to the past and reminds him when he had a rustic heart. ⓷Second genie is about present. He takes Scrooge to many places in London and shows various home placed in the various situations. ⓸The last genie is about future. He takes Scrooge to the future and shows his future.

B. Reaction Point -setting

• The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.
• time→christmas eve, place→London
  

C. Reaction Point - messege

• The central idea or statement of a story.
• I think the messege of this story is that be kind for everyone is very nice act.

D. My General Opinion
This is one of my favorite christmas film and so it was very interesting to study. I think we have to take care our family, friends and even stranger. This movie told me that, if I take them care with kind heart, they would treat me just like I do to them.