Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas until one reads or sees or enjoys the spirit of it – be it through movies, cartoons, carols or stories. One such immortal story which revolves around Christmas is the story of the old miser Ebenezer Scrooge. In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol the readers can find the right and almost perfect combination of everything ‘that makes Christmas what it is’. The story of an embittered old man who having spent his life in the pursuit of money and in the process alienating his friends and family, has become one of the most popular holiday tale of all time.

   As the story unfolds we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, cold-hearted, meanspirited and workaholic old miser who doesn’t even enjoy the money he gets. He calls Christmas a “humbug” and doesn’t believe it is a day to be celebrated or remembered. He makes his poor clerk Bob Cratchit work in a severely under-heated office and....