A Christmas Carol

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 Living in Shrewsbury, I regularly pass film settings for the George C Scott version of a Christmas Carol. (Cratchetts' house and Scrooge's gravestone featured). There've been many film and TV versions but my favourite is unquestionably the 1951 black and white Alistair Sim version. Most people are familiar with the story but I suggest that not so many have read the book. I was one of them, until this month. I was forced to read Dickens' Great Expectations in school and wasn't keen, so didn't have my own great expectations of A Christmas Carol. I needn't have worried. Wonderfully evocative and superbly written. The story very close to what we see on screen but with the odd thing missed out by film producers (or in ove case, added in). It also explained to me why Marley's ghost had a handkerchief tied around his head in the 1951 version. The most poignant line in the book :-

'This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy...'
Given the levels of stupidity I see on the internet across all social classes and countries that cause discord, harm, war, poverty and hunger - I find it most profound.
The book's core message is about redemption, goodwill to all men and hope for the future, and I'll say amen to that.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.






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