 Hello, and welcome to another lesson. Now, within this lesson, what I wanted to do was to summarize the main events and the main areas of a Christmas carol that you need to memorize when revising for this novella, either for your upcoming GCSE mocks or indeed your GCSE exams. Okay, so this video is going to be really useful because what I want to do is to summarize a Christmas carol and the key events within the entire novella in five minutes. Okay, so this is going to be really useful in terms of just taking a step back, evaluating the entire novella and just remembering the key aspects that you need to memorize when it comes to this novella. Now, let's begin. So the story, the narrative in Stave One starts off on Christmas Eve, where we meet Scrooge, who's a really miserly, greedy business owner who works in an accounting house, and he's working alongside Bob Cratchit and they are working in the cold. He's so greedy and so miserly that he doesn't even want to heat up the room that they're working in within his office. As they're working and as he's keeping a keen eye on Bob Cratchit, Scrooge, who's really miserly, gets a visit from two charity men. The two charity men are coming in to say, look, it's Christmas time. You're, you know, doing quite well for yourself in terms of business. We would like just some alms and donations to the poor. Scrooge rejects them and asks, are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses? Why can't the poor go there? Then these charity men go away. Fred comes in, Scrooge's nephew, invites Fred or rather he invites Scrooge for Christmas and Scrooge rejects Fred's invitation by saying the very famous bar humbug to Christmas. Now Scrooge then ends up grudgingly, angrily giving a day off to Bob Cratchit for Christmas Day. So he never gives Bob Cratchit any time off and he grudgingly, really angrily and annoyedly, gives him time off for Christmas Day. Now when Scrooge closes up his office and goes home, he is visited by the first ghost. This is Jacob Mollie's ghost. Jacob Mollie was his former business partner who had been dead for seven years. Jacob Mollie is covered with chains. All of these chains are filled with padlocks, ledgers and so on. Things associated with making money. Jacob Mollie warns him if he doesn't change his ways, he is going to die and face the afterlife much like Jacob Mollie. So he warns him of the afterlife and tells him that three ghosts are going to visit. Then the next ghost that visits Scrooge is the ghost of Christmas Pass and this ghost takes Scrooge through his pass. He reminds him of his childhood, his very lonely childhood in boarding school. He also takes him to Fezziwig's party. This is when Scrooge was working as an apprentice for his boss Fezziwig who really cared about all his workers and he used his resources to throw all of them at Christmas party. And the ghost also reminds Scrooge of how Belle, his first love, left him because Scrooge was so obsessed with money and Scrooge then is taken to Belle in her current situation with her husband. The husband and children seem all really happy and the husband tells her about how lonely Scrooge is and Scrooge is really really upset and he says ghost showing me no more. Then the ghost of Christmas present appears. Now ghost of Christmas present takes him through Christmas day as it currently is. He shows him Bob Cratchett's family especially Tiny Tim who is disabled and the ghost also takes him to Fred's party where Fred is having a Christmas party with his family. A lot of people there are making fun of Scrooge who is a miserly person. We don't really want him in the party anyway. And Scrooge finally is shown two children who are a result of poverty. These two children are called ignorance and want and ignorance is the one who is the child that Scrooge should be especially aware of because on his face is written doom. Then finally the ghost of Christmas yet to come enters. He is really scary. He's really ominous. Whilst the first two ghosts speak to Scrooge they seem very happy to show him some of his transgressions, the mistakes that he's making. The ghost of Christmas yet to come shrouded in a black garment and only pointing never speaks to Scrooge. And this ghost ultimately shows Scrooge his lonely death. People still from him. People sell his items. They even steal the clothes off his back and Scrooge is horrified to realise what's going to happen to him. He's going to die a miserable old lonely man who has lots of money but this money never made him happy. Finally Scrooge begs the ghost for a second chance. He begs and begs and begs the ghost of Christmas yet to come. He says, look I'm a changed man. Please give me a second chance. Let me make this right. And the ghost of Christmas yet to come agrees. He gives him one last chance. And the final stave ends on Christmas day when Scrooge is a completely changed man. He decides to buy the Cratchits of Turkey. He also joins friend, his nephew for Christmas and he ends up raising Bob Cratchit's salary and of course becoming a patron, a very wealthy supporter of Tiny Tim who is Bob Cratchit's disabled son. So that's really it when it comes to understanding the key events in A Christmas Carol.