My Featured Novel

I. About the Novel : A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost - Story of Christmas, commonly knows as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.

The book was written at a time when the British were examining and exploring Christmas traditings form the past as well as new customs such as Christmas cards and Christmas trees. Carol singing took a new lease of life, during this time. Dikens' sources for the tale appear to be many and varied, but are, principally, the humiliating experiences of his childhood, his sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas stories and fairy tales.

A Christmas Carol remains popular-having never been out of print-and has been adapted many times to film, stage, opera, and other media.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol　

II. Versions of the Novel in the Mass Media

1. Disney's A Christmas Carol

Disney's A Christmas Carol is a 2009 American 3D computer animated motion-capture fantasy film written and directed by Robert Zemeckis. It is an adaptation of the Charles Dickens story of the same name and stars Jim Carrey in a multitude of roles, including Ebenezer Scrooge as a young, middle-aged, and old man, and the three ghosts who haunt Scrooge. The film also features supporting roles done by Gary Oldman, Colin Firtr, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright, Penn, and Cary Elwes.

2. Mickey's Christmas Carol

                                         

Mickey's Christmas Carol is a 1983 American animated featurette producted by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. It was directed and produced by Burny Mattinson, The cartoon is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, starring Scrooge Mcduck as Ebenezer Scrooge. Many other Disney characters, primarily from the Mickey Mouse universe, Robin Hooo, and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr,Toac, were cast throughout the film.

Works Cited （参考文献）

1.  Disney's A Christmas Carol    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol_(2009_film)
2.  Mickey's Christmas Carol       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey%27s_Christmas_Carol

III. About the Author

Charles Dickens(1812-1870)

He is a novelist representative the victorian era. mainly,  he wrote about the main character of the lower class. he worked a newspaper reporter. and he wrote Sketches by Boz when he worked a newspaper reporter. he is very famouse and popular novelist.
Charles Dickens was a middle class during his childhood. but his father was sloppy with money.  and his mother too. therefore his home was very poor. so Dickens went to school during only fourt grade. unfortunetely Dickens home were bankrupted in 1824. and he worked at a shoes factory when he was twelve years old.
And he became journalist since then. ah, he also sometimes aimed for an actor. his novels is very famouse and popular even now.
mainly masterpiece novels are  Sketches by Boz(1836), Oliver Twist(1837-39),　 Great Expectations(1860-61), and A Christmas Carol(1843). he wrote a lot of novels.  there are still known now. it shows how much he famouse. his works never don't forget. his work will not decline.

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - characters

•  Persons — or animals or natural forces represented as persons — in a work of literature
•  Ebenezer Scrooge 
•  He is the hero of a this novel

B. Reaction Point - set design

• How the scenery looks and how it is built
• Christmas 
• The story is set in christmas

C. Reaction Point - message

• The central idea or statement of a story
• ghost
• The key person is ghost

D. My General Opinion 

A Christmas Carol is very popular all over the world. I watched a Mickey's Christmas Carol in childhood. I remember impressed by Mickey's Christmas Carol. and I read the original book. I think that a Christmas Carol is very good story. everyone please read it!