Timothy’s mother, pale but smiling, raised a cup of weak tea. “To my son,” she said, “who works for a man made of stone, but who remains made of light.”
The transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge is one of the most radical conversions in Western literature. It is a rejection of the cold logic of Thomas Malthus (the idea that the poor should naturally die off to decrease the surplus population). Scrooge does not become poor; he becomes generous. Dickens does not demand asceticism; he demands benevolence. poveste de craciun de charles dickens.pdf text
“She has nothing,” Silas muttered.
The ghost leaned close, and he felt the cold of a grave on his cheek. Timothy’s mother, pale but smiling, raised a cup
In the end, Scrooge becomes "as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew." He re-enters the stream of humanity. The text suggests that time does not have to be a destroyer; it can be a restorer. By keeping Christmas in his heart all the year round, Scrooge learns to live in a perpetual state of gratitude and giving. Scrooge does not become poor; he becomes generous